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When the musical director of Benni's
church is abruptly called away, Benni's gramma Dove eagerly volunteers the both
of them to take over a children's play already in rehearsal. Benni reluctantly
agrees to take the reins, even though the thought of shepherding twenty-eight
fidgety children through a crescendo of costumes, sets, and forgotten lines is
not her idea of a grand old time. But the production comes to a screeching halt when Benni discovers the badly beaten body of the church handyman right in front of the altar. Making matters worse is the unexpected appearance of her husband's ne'er-do-well cousin, as well as the disappearance of a valuable antique violin from the Santa Celine mission. With a growing cast of suspects, and a little girl as the only witness to the brutal crime, Benni must unravel a plot of theft and murder before it's curtains for her... |