Albany, New York, January 2020 The morning after a blizzard that shut down the city, funeral director Kevin Novak is found dead in the basement of his funeral home. The arrow sticking out of
his chest came from his own hunting bow. A loving husband and father and an active member of a local megachurch, Novak had no known enemies. His family and friends say he had been depressed
because his best friend died suddenly of a heart attack and Novak blamed himself. But what does his guilt have to do with his death? Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. The minister of the megachurch,
the psychiatrist who provides counseling to church members, or the folksy Southern medium who irritates both men--one of these people may know why Novak was murdered. Detective Hannah McCabeand
her partner, Mike Baxter, sort through lies and evasions to find the person who killed their "Cock Robin," But McCabe is distracted by a political controversy involving her family, unanswered
questions from another high-profile case, and her own guilt when a young woman dies after McCabe fails to act.