Life is sweet when you live in Confection, Oregon. Or, at least, that's how it's supposed to be. But then a dead body is unearthed from a shallow grave by a curious dog. A bathrobe-clad Lexi rushes next door to her neighbour s backyard to find her pooch, Cookie, stalwartly sitting watch over a body in the vegetable garden. Cookie, encrusted in dirt, grips a copper pipe between her teeth. Was this the murder weapon? And was Lexi the murderer? It sure looks that way, seeing as she was spotted squabbling with the victim just the day before. The case becomes all the more perplexing when the real murder weapon turns out to be a garden stake. Then where does the copper pipe fit in? And might a more likely suspect let Lexi off the hook?