While MacLaren Yarbrough was touring Scotland, her good friend Pooh DuBose died and Mac's husband, Joe Riddley Yarbrough, finagled her an invitation to join the prestigious Magnolia Women's investment Club. This club--which Mac and half the women in Hopemore, GA, call "the moneyed women's investment club"--is made up of the aristocracy of Hopemore. Between them, these women control more money than many countries in the world. 

At her first meeting, Mac finds the outgoing president dead on the ladies' room floor with a silver corkscrew in her throat. When the police chief arrives, he immediately settles on Cindy Yarbrough, Mac's daughter-in-law, as his chief suspect. When Cindy disappears, Mac feels compelled to investigate the crime before her son and daughter-in-law are declared fugitives from the law.