Benjamin Kalico, a young man who has opened a detective agency in Austin, Texas, forms an unlikely partnership with Emelia Winterjoy, a retired English teacher and nascent, amateur sleuth, to solve a murder "that hasn't happened yet." Lured by a generous retainer and Emelia's attractive niece, Kalico humors his elderly client at first. But while investigating a series of accidents, he begins to wonder: could these incidents have been planned? Between...