World famous transplant surgeon is murdered by his transplant team only to return from his grave. Johan Milkozavich is murdered in brothel, and the house manager is arrested and charged with murder. Sandra Lerner takes the case. Mystery, horror, mysticism, sex and violence in hostile neighborhood.

Emelian Ivanovich Pugachev (Tsar Peter III) was born in1740 and in 1774 lead a massive peasant revolt against Saint Petersburg where he was defeated and executed. He was reborn Vladimer Ilonovich Pusske in 1933 and achieved fame as a transplant surgeon at The Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Moscow where he was killed in an automobile accident on April 1, 1983.

Brutal axe murders of Dr. Teena Mazon, transplant surgeon, and Cathy Reyes, ICU supervisor, both ballroom champions, and the tragic plunge of lawyer Eugene Cash to his death gives lawyer-sleuth Sandra Lerner nightmares, panic attacks, and insomnia. Psychiatrist prescribes pills, vacation, and recreational ballroom dancing. Mystery, horror, sex, violence in ethnic urban setting.

Lawyer Sandra Lerner defends Dr. Raul Capistrana charged with murder, trafficking, and laundering. Detective Dirk Strong flies to Guadalajara, rescues scientist Austin Hale and apprehends the resurrected Ghost of Archbishop Jésus Llano Juarez. Dirk becomes incapacitated by Montezuma's revenge. Comet strikes Jupiter. Earth tilts on axis, and new ice age begins. Houston freezes, has narcotics withdrawal, riots, and Bubonic Plague. The courthouse and jails close, and social Darwinism is thwarted by martial law. WARNING: Not for Dummies.

Lawyer Juan Baptista, previously well, committed axe murder of Lynette Dematerez and assaulted ADA Elizabeth Borden with deadly weapon. He was wounded, admitted in shock to Del Arroyo for emergency surgery, and life-flighted to Matamoros by his surgeon friend, Dr. Guadalupe Alvarez. Juan was subsequently located in a Guadalajara hospital. While he was convalescing from abdominal surgery in Guadalajara, he was found to have elevated PSA, enlarged prostate, and coin lesion of lung. Physicians recommended castration and hormone therapy. Having no memory of previous events Juan voluntarily returned to Houston for consultation and incarceration. Lawyer Sandra Lerner aided by Private Investigator Derek Strong elected to plead NOT GUILTY DUE TO INSANITY.

Rico Carbello while intoxicated is shot between the eyes, and the murder weapon, a 9 mm with silencer, is crammed down this throat. When his body is discovered, the police find no evidence of a struggle or an entry. The murder weapon was registered to Sergeant Neva Braun who was also last to see Rico alive making her an immediate suspect. Neva called on Derek Strong, private investigator, and Sandra Lerner for help. Edgar Allen Poe wrote THE MURDER ON RUE MORGUE. It was a locked room mystery. When the authorities broke the door after hearing terrible screams, they found both women dead. The mother was slashed and stuffed up a chimney, and the daughter was dead from a hundred slashes. No killer was found, and there was no exit. Poe introduced the first private dectective.

Former professional football star, Blanchard(Blackie) White, business man, politician, and drug dealer disappeared. His Hospital Appliance business, the police warehouse, and the Registor's Office at the University of Saint Nicholas were fire bombed and destroyed. A drug war erupts, and and Jihadists fire bomb and demolish the First African Baptist on Memorial and terrorize Saint Colombo, killing two priests. Using infrared night vision, Dr. Al Medhi, Mullah Jesus Muhammad, and five Jihadists were followed back to the Shiite Baptist Mosque, captured, tortued to confess, executed by a firing squad, . and cremated in the ovens at Siracuza's Abattoir. Blackie was found butchered like a hog, skinned, and his entrails burned. His head, hands, and feet where buried elsewhere, and his heart and two fingers wearing a Super bowl ring were delivered by UPS to the wrong address causing catastrophic confusion and misguided police investigation. Dirk, following buzzards discovers the buried remains of Blackie and Je'sus Posadas.