It all starts at the funeral of Jack Kavel, the husband of Carla's old friend Georgina. When she is asked to investigate his murder, she turns down the job offer, but soon gets involved in the case.

Carla is hired by a society princess to find out who stole her precious jewels. Sounds like a nice, simple, fun job for a change, especially when she seems surrounded by death in the rest of her life.

With a dirty cop on her radar, Carla comes up with evidence of an arson attack, but when she tries to investigate, it simply results in her client being badly bashed.