Even a town called Snowflake, Vermont, has a summer season. In August, Lucky Jamieson's By the Spoonful serves chilled soups--celery and green onion, cream of asparagus and salads. The shop also serves as a gathering place to talk about cold-blooded murder.

When her grandfather's concoction for a pagan celebration results in the death of one of the attendees, soup-shop owner Lucky Jamieson, while helping her best friend discover the identity of a dead man she found on her property, stirs up trouble as she tries to clear her grandfather's name.