Nattie Ryan's bookstore, Mystery, Ink, is dying right before her eyes, and her beloved son, Jeffrey, is in prison for drug trafficking, a crime he didn't commit. Yet nothing compares to the complications in her life when she discovers her friend, Clyde Hamilton, sitting on a park bench, strangled in the same manner as the unsolved murder, 30 years before, of Doctor Adams. The police arrest a drifter who is passing through Centerville, but Natalie knows they have the wrong man, because he has no knowledge of the first murder. To avenge the death of her friend, she sets off on a harrowing journey that plunges her into danger with deadly consequences.