When Barry Blake is found dead in the attic of a New Jersey bookshop, Cordelia Corbett is pulled into a case that hits uncomfortably close to home.

Barry’s tangled relationships— including his fiancée, coworkers and childhood friends—turn a simple question into a maze of motives and half-truths, and there’s no clear evidence.

Running out of time and clues, and Cordelia and her team find out who was pulling the strings to orchestrate the crime?