It was a crime scene Edgar Allan Poe himself could have conjured, only it was all too real: workers demolishing a nineteenth-century Greenwich Village brownstone where Poe once lived unearthed the skeleton of a female — buried standing up upright behind a solid wall. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper assumes the gruesome case while in pursuit of the Silk Stocking Rapist, who’s terrorizing the Upper East Aspect. But Alex discovers that one criminal offense thread leads towards the various other as she comes after a path of clues to the Bronx Botanical Gardens, where a band of Poe devotees may shed light on a stone-cold, modern-day murder of gothic proportions…and a cunning killer having a bone-chilling tale to tell.