Aurora "Roe" Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted him dead—especially not dropped from a plane right into her backyard. But when other strange things happen around her, ranging from peculiar (her cat mysteriously gains a pink ribbon) to violent (her assistant at the library is attacked) to deadly (her former lover is stabbed), she must decipher the message in the madness before it's too late.