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A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table--with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffe

Mailman Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day.

As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups.

Joe Junior, the barber of Post Oak, Texas, has been murdered. And though he was beloved around town, there are no less than three primary suspects.

When local real-estate mogul Tom Delgado is found murdered in his office, the police suspect his wife, Dovie.

Rex Barnwell's ranch is well known in Job's Crossing, Texas. Covering thousands of acres, it is the last of the big working spreads. But trouble is brewing there.

Biggie is active planning the town's Pioneer Days festival when she learns of Mayor Gribbons' scheme to establish a landfill right next to her family cemetary.