Twice divorced NY model, Lalla Bains, now runs her dad's Aero Ag business in Modesto, California where she's hoping to dodge the inevitable fortieth birthday party. But when her trophy red '58 Cadillac is found tail-fins up in a nearby lake, the police ask why a widowed piano teacher, who couldnt possibly see beyond the hood ornament, was found strapped in the drivers seat. Reeling from an interrogation with local homicide, Lalla is determined extricate herself as a suspect. But drug running pilots, a cross-dressing escaped convict, a crazy Chihuahua and the dead womans hunky nephew throw enough road blocks to keep Lalla neck deep in an investigation that links her family to a twenty-year old murder that only she can solve.