So, why's an "old lady," calling herself Crone, taking a course at a local college in Maine? Well, she's thumbing her nose at anyone who believes that being old and female means being "weird and witchlike." But when two classmates are raped and murdered on campus, her own daughter's being stalked in faraway Kenya, and a biracial friend called Thug is blamed for everything gone wrong, how can she "keep it together"? And solve the murders?

With a little help from a local cop, Chilly (he's cool under fire), and her usually oblivious husband (who tells her he loves her), this is a whodunit with a difference.