Bobby Foster, car-hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. Hes already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the clubs rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracys body is still missing and Bobbys confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperatives final appeal sends San Franciscos number one P.I. Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls, into the fractured world of Tracys privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew, and into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder.