When wealthy housewives are found dead in their own backyards, victims of a serial killer dubbed the "backyard killer," Jessie must solve the case in the face of tremendous media pressure and a ticking clock. What secrets lie behind these hedges? And what do these victims have in common?Jessie is baffled at these crime scenes, so isolated, with seemingly no way the killer could have known these women were there.Yet something, she knows, must be connecting them.Behind their troubled marriages and phony friendships, a killer is lurking.But can Jessie uncover him before the next victim dies?