As Cackleberry Club Café co-owner Suzanne Dietz is visiting her fiancé, Dr. Sam Hazelet, a masked gunman bursts into the emergency room. He shoots two people and would have done more damage, but Suzanne clobbers him with a thermos full of chili. Still, the gunman manages to escape, and in this sixth adventure (following Eggs on Ice), Suzanne has just made an enemy of a dangerous killer, and the ladies of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find him before he finds them.