A night out with her husband to watch her best friend perform in a local community theater "in-the-round" production surely shouldn't be cause for amateur sleuth Pamela Barnes to use any of her acoustic detecting skills. But when one of the actresses collapses on stage and dies, Pamela finds herself in the thick of things. The recorder in her purse making an audio copy of the performance for another friend who couldn't attend, may now prove important when it's determined that the victim was poisoned. Do the sounds on the recording hold any clues to the identity of the murderer? It looks like Pamela is on the sound trail again, and she--and her pals in the Pyschology Department at Grace University--will not stop until they find the person who committed this murder in the round.