Micky Knight tackles her most personal and perplexing case yet. Micky
takes on the case of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a
tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. Together, they stir in
Micky a desire to search for her own mother who abandoned her when she
was just a young girl. When Micky's well-to-do physician girlfriend,
Cordelia James, must visit the coroner's office to identify a former
lesbian patient who has been brutally murdered, the death appears to be
an isolated incident. But matters take a sinister twist after another
lesbian patient turns up dead. Meanwhile, Micky is busy working on two
missing-persons cases: in one, a mother looks for her estranged
daughter; in the other, an HIV positive drag queen searches for his
biological mother. Micky's complicated investigations unearth numerous
closeted skeletons. The death of two uncles brings a few revelations
about Micky's enigmatic past as well, provoking her to search for her
own mother, who abandoned her nearly 20 years ago. Micky's diggings
inadvertently lead her straight into the boudoir of powerful, closeted
society matron Suzanna Forquet and her old-moneyed husband, Henri...