When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover, bored by bingo and bridge, is intrigued by the crime — and her neighbors' secrets. But discovering, and blabbing, secrets got Tammy killed, and Myrtle soon learns her sleuthing isn't just dangerous; it's deadly.