Reverend Blake Fisher considered his transfer to Picketsville an exile. Things get worse when a corpse is discovered in the sanctuary of his church. It is not the only dead body, either.
"For Sheriff Ike Schwartz, two murders and the unexplained presence of the FBI in his town wreak havoc with keeping the peace. They don't do his romance with the president of Callend College for Women any good either. Ruth Harris is threatened by the murders on the one hand, and on the other by her faculty, who dismiss Ike as just another country cop. If only they knew how overqualified Ike actually is...."