My second death

the long version

Mickey Brandeis, a brilliant doctoral candidate in medieval literature, lives in her parents' garage and swears too often, but she hasn't killed a man since she was ten. Mickey's carefully created adult existence is upended when she is led to a condemned house where she discovers a mutilated corpse. When she is later asked by a timid student to solve a murder that occurred twenty years earlier, Mickey begins to lose hold on her tenuous connection to reality.