Cassie Raven is a pathologist and has long preferred the company of the dead to the living. Cassie is sure that the dead have something to tell about their death. The main thing is to be able to listen to them. When Cassie comes into the care of the body of her old teacher, Mrs. Edwards, she begins to suspect that her death was violent. But could it be that grief has deprived her of the ability to think straight? Maybe this death is just the result of an accident? But when one of the bodies goes missing from the morgue, the police, along with Detective Phyllida Flyte, get involved in the case, and Cassie finds herself caught up in a stream of rapidly evolving events.