A strip club opening in a nearby empty building threatens Temple Barr's elderly landlady's wedding chapel business. Then Electra Lark is charged with murder, in a death that echoes a bizarre slaying decades earlier. Temple's fiancé, Matt Devine, plays detective at a forgotten fifties night club, Zoot Suit Choo-Choo. Meanwhile her ex, magician-counterterrorist Max Kinsella, dodges IRA remnants in Ireland where he's searching for his cousin, presumed dead from a pub bombing years earlier.