In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one of the most explosive sex-murder trials ever reported.

In this award-winning sequel, the Gangsters are living well one year later. Jack, Sam, and Tobin run across a dying man who informs them of a psychopath holding people hostage in a town nearby. When he mentions Max Castelli is one of the prisoners, the Gangsters give their undivided attention to this new villain in hopes of rescuing a family member they thought had died with the plague.