The body of a young man with no wallet and no identification is found in the woods of Serenity Hills, Texas. When Councilman Gus Reynolds discovers the identity of the victim, he and city bookkeeper Cassie Thibodeaux again join forces to solve the crime. After successfully solving the murder mystery in Politics Can Be Deadly, this time Gus and Cassie drag their husbands, David Hartley and J. D. Thibodeaux, and city manager Dede Kelley, into their unconventional methods of solving the murder as the amateur dectectives encounter dead ends, wrong turns, and amusing situations, and even danger.