Three adopted siblings return to their backwater hometown for their father’s funeral, only to find themselves tested in a challenge to identify one of them -- or their own mother -- as his killer.

The safest summer resort on Lake Erie keeps finding dead bodies. What’s going on? The much married Methodist minister, the Chinese woman who is first chair of the local orchestra and an underpaid traffic cop, try as hard as they can to find out.

If humanity had never reached for the stars, the stars never would have come for them.