Publisher's Synopsis
Three million dollars in share certificates have been stolen from a Dominican priory, and V.I. Warshawski doesn't want to find out why. Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, wants her on the case, and V.I. has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago. But V.I. changes her mind and the case changes its course when she visits the priory. Suddenly everyone - her aunt, the FBI, and a mysterious phone caller threatening to pour acid on V.I.'s beautiful eyes - tells her to let sleeping dogs lie. Then one of V.I.'s dearest friends is murdered...