Intrepid reporter Sara Joslyn, having escaped the clutches of the
supermarket tabloid Weekly Galaxy, is finally going to be allowed to
practice "clean journalism." Unfortunately, intrepid editor Jack
Ingersoll has other plans, assigning her to a gory sex-murder trial in
Branson, Missouri, home to more country stars than there are in the
heavens.
While delving into the muck, rake in hand, Sara runs into her old
comrades from the Galaxy - Binx Radwell, Boy Cartwright, and the Down
Under Trio among them. At the eye of this journalistic cyclone is
country musician Ray Jones; is he guilty of the grisly murder, and what
else is he up to, if anything?
The lyrics to eleven Ray Jones hits are sprinkled throughout the novel
and are an important accompaniment to the proceedings, if only Sara and
Jack can keep their fingers out of their ears long enough to hear it....