The tight-knit community of Hummelstown, PA is torn apart when 82 year-old Kathryn Bishop is found savagely beaten to death. When every suspect has an alibi, Coroner Graham Hetrick's only hope to find the killer is evidence from an unlikely source.

After what looks like a hit-and-run accident, Kim Granison is found fighting for her life in the middle of a street, then she succumbs to her injuries; Coroner Graham Hetrick suspects Granison may have been the victim of murder, not an accident.

When well-known bookie John Troutman is found brutally murdered in his apartment, Dauphin County Coroner Graham Hetrick is immediately called to the scene. Graham must read John's many wounds to uncover a hatred that lies dangerously close to home.