A bum hip has bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn limping
off to Good Cheer Hospital -- a questionable "haven of healing" where
two recent patients didn't make the cut after routine surgery. Judith's
trepidation at undergoing the knife is eased only by sharing a room with
cousin Renie, who's in for rotator cuff repair. Though the cousins
survive their surgeries, the ex-pro quarterback next door is permanently
sacked after minor knee surgery. With the scoreboard showing Grim Reaper
3, post-op patients 0, Judith decides that she and Renie are obliged to
get to the bottom of Good Cheer's carnage. But in order to sew up the
case, Judith and Renie must probe into the suspects' psyches. And
suddenly it looks as if the cousins' own prognoses could take them out
of the game...for good.