A very family affair occupies Rachel and Hartley Buckmaster when their dead father's housekeeper dies; the small town whisperings spread to the Bovards -- Hugh, protective, Althea, retreating, and their daughter, Bix, independent and fighting for Hartley. There's not much fancy footwork before a deathbed confession clears the case -- but not the atmosphere -- and a suicide dots the i's. Chicago suburbia and specific.