Brilliant and charming, young Kevin Cannivan rejected the Ivy League - choosing instead to enter an obscure Catholic seminary in Coldwater, Connecticut. Now, four months later, Kevin is unaccountably dead. Officially, he died of erotic asphyxia, but his mother thinks he was murdered. Distraught, she has turned for help to a quartet of able senior sleuths known locally as the 'Hometown Heroes.' A former socialite, a courtly doctor, a crusty ex-police chief and his earthy lady love, these four have solved heinous crimes before. But this investigation is stranding the geriatric group behind cloistered walls that guard a plethora of grievous sins, past and present ... and unholy secrets that will inevitably lead to more murder.