Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but this is Louisiana, where everything gets a splash of hot sauce. Detective Cadillac Holland is called upon to locate Senator Chester Donovan's missing daughter-in-law. A pool of blood in the trunk of her Mercedes exposes other unexplained deaths in a town once described as being a place "where there are more alligators than people, and the alligators are friendlier." The solution to this mystery lies buried in the town's sordid history, a story that changes with each telling. Detective Holland must find what is driving an innovative and vengeful killer before they choose their next victim.