In Confection, Oregon, Lexi rushes to her neighbor's backyard to find her border collie mix, Cookie, sitting near a body in the garden. Cookie grips a copper pipe between her teeth. Was this the murder weapon? And was Lexi the murderer? It sure looks that way, seeing as she was spotted squabbling with the victim just the day before. All the volumes in the Sweet Fiction Bookshop prove of little help in jogging Lexi's brain to find a solution. Fortunately, Cookie is not finished digging up clues, so she might just save Lexi from a bitter end.