Mags Gordon, owner of a real estate agency in Crabapple Cove, has successfully proven her associate innocent of the crime of murder, and pointed the blame instead at her ex-husband, where it rightfully belonged. It was time to get back to selling houses, not sending criminals off to the big house. Only her right hand and partner in crime, Carole Pickett, has other ideas. Before Mags can apply the brakes, Carole is running full-tilt in her quest to prove that the heir to a town fortune is actually an imposter. Mags has no choice but to hang on, fasten her seatbelt, and get ready to prove Carole correct, before the bogus heir can prove her dead instead. How Mags sifts through the clues that provide one story on the surface, only to uncover the harsh and ruthless killer, is the story told in Out of Thin Heir.