Nargess, a criminal defence lawyer in NY, has come to Miami to be at the bedside of her father, who doesn't have long to live. There is something he wants to tell her before he dies, but before he has a chance, her mother sends Nargess to the hairdresser and instructs Dr. Baker, her father's louche best friend, to take her out to dinner. When the two come home, her father is dead.

Has he committed suicide, as he often threatened? Did her mother assist him? Or did she actually kill him, as the authorities come to suspect? And what was the secret Nargess's father took with him to the grave?

Jetting between Miami and London, this is a rollicking, pacey novel about family ties, guilt and loyalty in an ultra glamorous but dysfunctional Iranian family.