Jessica narrates the tale surrounding her newest novel while wearing snazzy slippers Grady gifted her about a music student who accuses his professor of plagiarism, only to be accused of his murder when he is found dead with a tuning fork in his inard in his office on campus.
Friends of the accused - Chad Singer, a law student from the deep south, and Jenny Coopersmith, a quirky young lady from New York investigate and learn that others had enough motive to take the tune out of the professor's heartbeat. The investigation is standard, made enjoyable by Shaun Cassidy, a charismatic actor who was one of the Hardy boys. This bookend starts with a entertaining and funny narration by Jessica, funny because of her line about sheriff Amos Tupper. It's a good mystery, liked the college setting, the suspects and the denouement was fine.