Meet Tess, an average, plucky teenager, dealing with grief the best way she knows how. Tess McGee is as normal as any teenager with a dead dad pass can be. Dead mystery authors are her best friends, classic film noir is her meat, and she has murder on the brain, but so what? Tess knows the police gave up on her father's case. She knows every crime deserves punishment. And she definitely knows the new neighbors are up to something, watching her even as she watches them. Just because she has a flair for the dramatic, it doesn't mean she's wrong. Tess knows they have a secret, and secrets demand justice. Tess will see that justice served even if no one else believes her. Even if she has to do it alone. Even if it kills her.