No one in Bradley, North Carolina, is exactly crying into their sweet tea over the murder of pushy town developer Parke Stockard. Certainly not retired schoolteacher Myrtle Clover. Upon
discovering the corpse, Myrtle is struck - not with grief, but a brilliant idea! Solving the crime would prove to everyone (especially her son Red, the police chief) that this
eighty-something-year-old is not ready to be put out to pasture just yet.