Fifty-five-year-old Parker MacLean loves her bookstore Killer Books almost as much as she loves snooping. When she inadvertently delivers a book to a customer, who ends up murdered the shenanigans begin. The New York State police don't like her meddling, yet she can't help herself. The drama intensifies when her only child Emmeline is kidnapped.

They go to the Caribbean and the troubles continue. Why is Parker looking for a criminal? And did he kill his own mother?