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Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouses future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes by its past. Nicknamed The Old Deep and Dark because of the Prohibition-era double murder that occurred in the basement-then a speakeasy-there are a wealth of secrets hidden inside its walls. And, to her shock and horror, Cordelia discovers that there is also one present-day body literally buried in a basement wall. Cordelia immediately calls on her best friend, P.I. Jane Lawless.Although Jane is already in the thick of another investigation-shes embroiled in a well-known country-western singers family scandal-she agrees to help Cordelia out on the side.