A successful, but reclusive young artist with a secret life.A wannabe lawman and his dotty gun-toting granddadAn abandoned mine pitA curious dad and a very dead police chief When Lalla and her dad take a trip to Arizona to inspect her new property, Dad disappears. Luckily, Lalla enlists the help of a local tracker and finds him unharmed, but in the bottom of a mine pit . Only problem is, he's got company--a very dead local police chief. Then too, less than a mile away, a young artist is found murdered. What're the chances that these two murders are going to be related? Well, if you're Lalla Bains, you don't guess, you start looking for the killer!