Murder casts a spell on amateur sleuth, Lysi Weston’s South African vacation when she stumbles across a body in a witch doctor’s hut. Her earthy, Harlem-born colleague, Grace Wright, insists it’s none of Lysi’s business. When an old flame, Australian Detective Maynard Christie travels 800 miles to rekindle their romance, Lysi wastes no time plunging him into her sleuthing efforts.

Lysi, with her proclivity for finding trouble, tries to unravel a murder mystery involving sorcery, gay pride and cobra venom.