Aurora Teagarden is enjoying a sunny afternoon in her backyard until Detective Jack Burns drops in--literally. Aurora and the detective never did get along, but this is especially traumatic as Burns's dead body is dropped next to her lawn chair from a low-flying airplane. Aurora begins to investigate. But when two more bodies emerge in her vicinity, the sleuth comes to realize that she is right in the middle of the murderers--and there is a killer on the loose with a message for her.