The tiny village of Kilbane is hosting a poker tournament at the neighborhood pub, and card sharp Eamon Foley, a tinker out of Dublin, is defined to win the tournament. But when Foley is found by the end of a rope, it’s time for the garda to consider matters to their personal hands. Macdara Flannery would place odds it’s a straightforward suicide, but Siobhán suspects foul play, as will Foley’s pregnant widow. Maybe among Foley’s fellow finalists simply raised the stakes alive and death. With conflicting theories on the crime, tensions are running high. Quickly it’s up to Siobhán to call a killer’s bluff, but if she doesn’t play her cards right, she may be another one taken out of the game.