 When Mona s key won t fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son s; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona s dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who s having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff s landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he d like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash s son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail?