Jessica's relaxing trip to visit her friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley in picturesque San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, takes a turn when Vaughan is abducted for a large ransom and Jessica must put her own life on the line to find him.
Jessica Fletcher is in a Florida retirement community for the funeral of a dear old friend whose heart gave out-only to discover that the woman's death from natural causes may have been artificially induced.

With the help of a feisty group of young-in-spirit retirees, Jessica must track down the clues and find out who prescribed the fatal treatment...