When Boris Potemkin dies, his not-very-bereaved widow insists that God struck him down for being a nasty man. But in Elena’s experience, God doesn’t use handguns—and the battles that went on in the Potemkin family indicate that this is an act of murder, not divine retribution. Then while investigating the background of the victim’s estranged son, Elena discovers that Boris isn’t the only man in Los Santos to die under mysterious circumstances of late. Now, with the help of her ex-hippie, aura-interpreting mother, Harmony Waite Portillo, Elena is searching for both a perpetrator and a pattern—to find out who’s making widows out of a ladies’ bridge group on the border.