Michael Dubose, tortured by recurring dreams and a hatred for his mother, is a force not to be denied. As Mardi Gras begins in the French Quarter, Dubose's time has come. Driven by loathing, Michael seeks deliverance from his pain. Five women must die so he can live free. Along with his roommate Billy, Michael devises a grandiose plan to end two lives-his mother and her maid-in the cathedral where he had been forced every Sunday of his youth to kneel and pay homage to a God that was just as unlovely as his mother. But three other women of pain must also die-Sister Monica, the lady in black...

Michael Dubose, tortured by recurring dreams and a hatred for his mother, is a force not to be denied. As Mardi Gras begins in the French Quarter, Dubose's time has come. Driven by loathing, Michael seeks deliverance from his pain. Five women must die so he can live free. Along with his roommate Billy, Michael devises a grandiose plan to end two lives-his mother and her maid-in the cathedral where he had been forced every Sunday of his youth to kneel and pay homage to a God that was just as unlovely as his mother. But three other women of pain must also die-Sister Monica, the lady in black...