A fantasy gumshoe novel. Eddie LaCrosse has left his former life and become a private investigator. He’s drawn back to his former life where he was a baron and good friend of the king until his lover (the princess) was killed. The queen has been accused of killing and eating her own child, and the king is wracked with grief. Eddie has to solve the mystery of what really happened, but there’s a twist. There’s an added complication because he recognises the queen from an earlier time.