In a small town, everyone knows everybody else and strangers easily stand out in the crowd.
People look out for their neighbors, thereby creating a close knit community.
However, on the down side, secrets are known by all and kept away from outsiders. Trudy Roundtree is paid by the county to investigate the personal lives of others as a police officer in Ogeechee, Georgia. As the only female law enforcement person, she has a lot to prove even as her boss, who is also her cousin, wants to protect her from the uglier side of life. A few weeks ago Reed Ritter was complaining about vandalism. Now he is dead from a fire that started from his stove in his trash filled home.