In response to a request from Amy Macomber, an old friend of Jack Crawford, the trio of Jack, Noah Amos and Marge Griffin begin their investigation into the death of her husband some twenty years earlier. Was it suicide or murder that took his life? The elderly trio of amateur sleuths attempts to unravel the details of a life gone awry. As she approaches the end of her life, Amy Macomber decides that she wants the questions that have tormented her about her husband’s death put behind her. Was he killed by a family member or did he take his own life? As an amateur sailor and lover of the sea, Jack Crawford is taken back to his early years in Westport and Martha’s Vineyard and his adventures under the tutelage of Jeff Macomber as they sailed the waters off the shores of New England.