Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world.When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is one of the world's wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is the Illinois Democratic candidate for Senate.For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers.Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania?As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.