River Corners is an ordinary college town. It has the typical town-gown divide, the quaint shops, and the diner where everyone goes to grab a quick bite to eat. It has a Christmas pageant every year, children who carol, and enough quirky characters to fill a graveyard. It also has a killer - and an amateur detective determined to see justice done. Isobel Santini has a new challenge: she's supposed to cook Thanksgiving Day Dinner for the entire family, as well as Greg Stone, the professor she's been dating. Oh, and his parents are going to be in town. Then Isobel discovers yet another dead body at a seasonal attraction. Can she solve the murder before someone else dies? When will she find time to practice her pumpkin pie? And how many jokes will her cousin Michael make about food poisoning?