The search for a killer brings a detective into an even bigger puzzle: the essence of the world itself. Mike Hoolihan is a unconventional New Orleans cop a hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Since Mike tumbles down the rabbit hole of the bothering, labyrinthine case, she discovers herself grappling with more existential questions of quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and exploding stars - cosmic keys which might contain the key to unraveling the crime, while projecting into doubt her very comprehension of reality. Awash in neo-noir setting, this thriller that is oneofakind is both a rich, metaphysical mind-bender and a tantalizing who dunnit.