Hannah Garvey and her gang of senior sleuths are back—just in time to get mixed up in another murder case. The circus has come to Sanity, Missouri, bringing with it magician Reilly Boone, who's claiming to be Hannah's long-lost father. Sheriff David Hendrickson is convinced Reilly and his lady-illusionist wife, AnnaLeigh, are running a scam, until AnnaLeigh catches a real bullet during their act. Now, with Reilly the number-one suspect in her murder, Hannah and the nosy residents of Valhalla Springs can't help but get involved....
