Victoria Trumbull, a 92 year-old Martha's Vineyard native, deputy police officer and naturalist, investigates after the discovery of the decayed corpse of sleazy lawyer Montgomery Mausz.
To keep eager developers off Martha's Vineyard, poet-detective Victoria Trumbull searches for loopholes-and finds a patch of endangered cranefly orchids. But she also discovers one of the developers' underhanded lawyers pushing up daisies. And if Victoria isn't careful, a killer...