Welcome to Lady Jail: a nest of killers, and not all of them are getting out alive . . .
Quebec, 1994. Fraud artist Abigail, the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women, is struggling to adjust to the prisonâs communal quarters. Her fellow inmates only give out the bare bones of their crimes, and itâs quite the roll call. Doi took a hatchet to her own daughter. Malka poisoned her husband. And thatâs just for starters. Abigail keeps her head down, does her best to make friends with the band of killers, tries to survive.
But on an ordinary, quiet day, the extraordinary happens: a prisoner is found face-down in a toilet stall, a strangulation wire around her neck. Trouble, Abigail realizes, is ahead.
Sergeant-Detective Ãmile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate. He put Abigail away â and now sheâs the prime suspect. But other, darker, forces are interested in Abigail, and Ãmile interferes at his own peril. For as heâll soon discover, in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems . . .