In this witty, tongue-in-cheek whodunnit, Arianna Archer, a thirty-five-year-old, currently unemployed, TV and murder mystery fanatic, is called on by an acquaintance of hers, Sallie Rigelli, to look into the death of a fellow Church Council member, which has been labeled an accident. All of Arianna's murder mystery knowledge she has accumulated over the years from TV shows and books is put to the test when she and Sallie investigate.