Welcome to the Mad Egg Diner, Where Your Eggs are Cooked Over Easy and Your Murder is Hard Boiled As The Quaking Aspen Arts Festival rocks and shocks Cascade, Melody Bristol’s diner does a bang-up business. Even a warning from the snotty Chief of Police to stay out of official investigations can’t shake our heroine’s Rocky Mountain high. Then bestie Ruby’s boyfriend is gunned down outside his pub and Ruby’s accused of the crime. She’s so distraught that her reporter’s savvy fails her and Melody steps up. Over Gabe’s protests, Melody dives into the case to clear her friend. The fractious pair corrals a bitter barmaid, a brawling beer-lover, and a rival bent on revenge. Then new evidence emerges that ties the town’s last four murders to organized crime. Now Melody’s in way over her head. Mob mayhem in small town Colorado? No way! As she’s digesting that bombshell, Melody discovers that once again, all roads lead back to the town’s sexiest, smarmiest lawyer. Could an Armani-wearing hunk with a jones for French wine be ordering murders a la carte? Melody intends to find out. Even if it kills her.