Texas setting

Zoe Wilder is enjoying life—until her trip to lay flowers on Nana Wilder’s grave has Zoe tripping over the body of a young woman. Wondering how this could happen to her again, she’s determined to help the hunky Sheriff capture the killer. His warnings don’t deter her, but she’s slowed by the other obstacles she has to combat. Zoe’s trying to adjust to her greatly changed lifestyle; her friend, Letty, is temporarily out of commission from a broken leg; and Zoe’s fighting her longtime nemesis, who is the president of the local HOA.

Zoe Wilder is a reporter for the local newspaper, The Spencer’s Ridge Gazette, in Winston County, Texas. She also writes cozy mysteries. Perhaps that’s why she sees a crime where there may not be one. Members of the local Winston County Sheriff’s Department view her as a pretty kook and don’t take her seriously. When she finds her friend Margo Kingsley dead, she is certain Margo was murdered and Margo’s housekeeper agrees. The investigating officer doesn’t believe her, and the death is ruled an accident due to a fall while inebriated.