Amateur sleuth Peaches Dann, fascinated with the renovation of the family home of her father's new wife, Azalea Marlowe, embarks upon the investigation of an old mystery when century-old bones are found buried on the property.
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy abruptly quits law school and flees to her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi where she stumbles upon a long-ago murder mystery.