Cantankerous spinster Ivy Beasley has quickly learned that spending her golden years in the quaint village of Barrington won't be as quiet as she thought. Ivy hasn't been the old people's home at Springfields for long, but she's already found new friends, formed a detective agency and solved a murder. And as autumn falls, Ivy and her team are asked to investigate a mysterious death in the village of Measby - in between card games, of course.