Bell-ringer Amanda Ballard is found hanged in the belfry with a suicide note left beside her, but Agatha is not convinced she took her own life and enlists a reluctant Roy to help her research the case.

Agatha and James spring into action when the local vet and village heartthrob is found dead, the day after he and Agatha went on a date.

The murder of a bride throws the village into shock. Ignoring warnings Agatha investigates, but soon finds she's in desperate danger.