Brandy Borne finds her return home met with mayhem and murder when her mother, a larger-than-life actress and gossip, is swindled out of some priceless antiques by Clint Carson who then winds up dead, making Brandy the prime suspect.
As Halloween approaches, Brandy Borne and her meddling mother Vivian must unmask a killer when a body is found at the antiques mall, supposedly mauled to death by a good-natured pit bull.