Ellery and Samantha are back on the beat! With 31,536,000 seconds in a year, what are the odds that the one minute Ellery Tinsdale and Samantha "Sam" Greene choose to break into the confidential files at the church would be the same minute Reverend John Thomas Hammersmith is brutally murdered while eating lunch at his desk? But that's the kind of bad luck Ellery experiences since moving to the small lakeside resort founded by her distant relatives. Her and Sam's close proximity to the tragic event makes them not only witnesses but suspects, too. And when not one, but two, more residents are found dead, Ellery and Sam are the unlucky ones to discover those bodies as well. Police Chief Lewis thinks it is more than a coincidence. With limited sleuthing experiencing, Ellery and Sam rely on nothing more than BLOND FAITH to help them track down the killers and clear their names.