In the first book of this series we found small town librarian, Aurora Teagarden, going off to her club meeting, "Real Murders", where members discuss details of real murder cases from the past. To her horror, she finds one of the club members murdered in the kitchen. She is staged like the murder that Roe is scheduled to present that evening. She also meets the handsome writer, Robin Crusoe, who has just rented the townhouse next door while he teaches a creative writing class in near-by Atlanta.
Now Robin has written a best seller about the earlier events and has come back to town with the film crew to make a mini-series about the "Real Murders" case. Unfortunately, Roe finds another body, this time it is the actress who would have been playing her in the TV movie.