Miss Loraine Pettybone and her cohorts are back and nosier than ever. Free-spirited, man-loving Minnie Stover is murdered in the middle of the produce department of Beatty, Mississippi's busiest supermarket. Minnie's mother, Macy Stover, who is a known card-caring witch, psychic and sometimes remover of bad luck, swears Minnie has been contacting her and is trying to tell her the killer's name. When Macy begs Miss Pettybone to investigate her daughter's death, she begins the arduous task of sorting through facts and rumors about the dead girl's life. Discovering Minnie Stover really was a girl who liked having fun, the suspect list quickly grows to include even her best friend's husband. When her long time neighbor is found murdered on her property, she is devastated and ready to quit. But the murderer isn't quite finished; his next intended victim is that bothersome Miss Pettybone