In Payette, Idaho, Elizabeth Baune is a dedicated teacher and a pillar of her community until she is stabbed to death in her own home; while townspeople suspect that her kindness may have been behind her death.
In the Columbus Ohio neighborhood of German Village, the body of Alyce Seff is found in a wishing well, and the townspeople are shocked to learn the elderly landlady had as many enemies as she did friends. With leads going cold, it will take law enforcement nine years to solve her case.
In Shawnee, Oklahoma, Marshall Dent goes missing on Christmas Eve, and the Native American community bands together; after weeks of searching, they find the Marshall in a shallow grave on sacred ground, and authorities scramble to find his killer.
A Christmas is ruined when hikers in New Mexico stumble across the shallow grave of Roxanne Houston; the murder rocks the community of Taos and tension builds between those with small town values and the outsider lifestyle on the Mesa.
When Michael Lee Smith's body is found shot, partially nude, and dumped on the side of the road, the town of Berkley, Michigan is scandalized. Police are forced to sift through lies and alibis as they attempt to track down the killer.
