Patricia Anne can't imagine why Mary Alice is in such an uproar over her son Ray's new bride. Sunshine Dabbs is "cute as can be," even if she is a bit unconventional, which should hardly come as a shock to Mary Alice - given that she's the one who raised her boy. But with all her motherly instincts, Mary Alice is sure that this sweet little blonde Barbie doll - who met her son in Bora Bora after she won the trip on Wheel of Fortune - thinks she's found herself a fortune in Ray's hefty wallet.
The sisters can't wait to get a look at Sunshine's family, and quite a look it turns out to be. As soon as Meemaw Turkett invites Mary Alice and Patricia Anne into her cozy trailer on the family compound they stumble over a corpse, and Meemaw's best hog butchering knife is stuck in its chest. Meemaw, a Cabbage Patch look-alike and Sunshine's grandmother, guardian, and the family matriarch is shocked to pieces and immediately summons the family to her trailer.
And once again there's a mystery to solve, with the sisters thrown into a cockeyed world of strange events and even stranger people. Because when it comes to murder, Mary Alice and Patricia Anne agree on one thing: Sheriff Reuse hasn't got a clue...not unless they put their heads together and push his nose in the right direction.