Meet Hillary Scarborough, a domestic artiste with a flair for design...and Jane Ferguson, an ex-law student who can't cook or decorate to save her life. Between the two of them, they solve more crimes—and decorating disasters—than any other belles of the south...

Meet Hillary Scarborough, a domestic artiste with a flair for design...and Jane Ferguson, an ex-law student who can't cook or decorate to save her life. Between the two of them, they solve more crimes—and decorating disasters—than any other belles of the South. Local psychic Cassandra Bean has hired Elegance du Sud to supply a banquet in honor of her great aunt—who died several years ago. When Hillary and Jane arrive at the Bean residence, they are told that Cassandra, though young and healthy, has died of a heart attack. The surviving menbers of the Bean clan insist on having the party anyway—for they fear reprisal from ancestral Beans who haunt the family home. And the list is growing as Uncle Bruce—among others—turns up dead. When a flash flood leaves Hillary and Jane stranded in the house, they find themselves plagued by nocturnal visitors. But they can't really be ghosts...can they? To find out, the intrepid caterers must finish the job they were hired to do—and try to avoid being finished off in the process....

Decorators Hillary and Jane head to the south of France to a prestigious culinary school, where a corpse uncovered in a vat of wine has caused considerable consternation.