Callahan Garrity is the ownerof house mouse, a cleaningservice that tidies up afterAtlanta's elite. She's also aformer cop and a part-timesleuth. She and her coterie ofdevoted helpers can ransack ahouse for clues faster than ittakes a fingerprint to set.

Keeping Rita Fontaine, awashed-up 1960steenage rock star, out of jail is a tough job. It'snothing less than murder when Stu Hightower, the vain, temperamental president of athriving Atlanta recording company, is foundmurdered in the den of his posh home. Hisonly companions are the slug in his heart andRita, dead drunk and looking guilty. Callahanbelieves in Rita's innocence, but discoveringwho killed Hightower could send her floatingdown a river of lost dreams without a paddle.