A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery haunting her neighborhood. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues-including a skull, its missing skeleton and a suspicious group of neighbors-and solve the murder before she becomes the unlikely killer's next victim.

A former professional football player retires to his hometown of Evening Shade, Ark., and settles into a new job as coach of a high-school football team with a long losing streak.

The staff of a New York City taxicab company go about their job while they dream of greater things.