Liz Lucas, the owner of the Red Cedar Spa, hires an intern to help her prepare the family style meals served to guests at the lodge. Driving home from the lodge his car crashes over a cliff and into the ocean. Was it suicide or murder? Liz, along with her trusty dog, Winston, sets out to find the killer, because it’s too big of a task for the bumbling inept local police chief. Was it the high school computer genius, Nerdy Birdie? Brent, who was going to Stanford on a football scholarship? Kaitlin, the quarterback’s girlfriend? Clamhammer, the gangster from San Francisco’s Chinatown? Or Nerdy’s mother, the president of the Women Whose Husbands Left Them Club? Who would have thought Brandy Boy, the loveable but lazy St. Bernard who’s the mascot of the Red Cedar Spa, would become a nationally recognized hero?