Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, a passion for mystery novels, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. But then her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at the telecommunications firm that employs him. ';How could anything that boring be illegal?' she wonders. The scandal threatens to drain the Foys' bank account, send Frank to prison, and tear the family apart. Attempting to understand the suffering caused by the company's bankruptcy, Pat decides to search out the victimsand finds more twists and turns than in any of the whodunits she has read.