It isn't a loss of faith that is emptying the pews at Old West Church. It is something far more sinister - an inexplicable number of people are taking up residence in the cemetery. It's more than morbid curiosity that piques parishioner (and former detective) Homer Kelly. And when he sets out to disentangle the natural deaths from those of a more suspicious nature, he discovers that the ways of man (and woman) in a small New England town can be just as mysterious as the ways of God.