Lila Grace Carter talks to dead people. Of course, as she puts it, all Southerners talk to dead people. Frankly, she wouldn't trust anybody who doesn't speak to at least two or three dead relations every week. But the difference is, for Lila Grace, the dead talk back. And when the ghost of a teenage girl shows up on her doorstep, Lila Grace is dean into a mystery of small town murder that may end up being her last.