Bay Winchester, editor of Hemlock Cove's small weekly newspaper, thinks her small hamlet's upcoming murder mystery weekend is going to be all about fun, food and frolicking. Instead, when another dead body is discovered in Hemlock Cove, things turn into murder, mayhem and migraines. The body belongs to the town drunk and no one can figure out who would want to kill him or why. Bay's investigation is stymied by her new boss, Brian Kelly, and her old flirtation, FBI agent Landon Michaels, both of whom seem to have more than interviews on their minds. When you couple that with her cousin Thistle's obsession with making their great-aunt Tillie pay for the curse she recently put on them and her cousin Clove's conviction that she is not a blabbermouth, Bay has her hands full. When the murder investigation takes a turn, a long-held Hemlock Cove secret is bound to be exposed. If it is, Bay may find herself in trouble again and this is the kind of trouble that she may not be able to find a way out of even with Aunt Tillie's help.