Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool''s prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward''s Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud . . . and then the Broward''s Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it''s up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail of the vicious trickster -- or a secret slayer''s next lethal "joke" may very well be on her!