Francie LeVillard is the finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes. In this, the ninth volume of her case stories, In "The Storage Locker", her friend overhears a strange conversation in a neighboring storage unit that could be criminal. In "Fixing Poor Grades", the body of a local college professor is found floating in Lake El Estero. "Unjustice" is about a man unfairly arrested who comes to Francie to see about the system being changed. And in "The Dream", a friend who doesn't believe in past lives has an experience that seems to defy explanation.