Lacey Smithsonian is stuck in a rut. She's confronted killers, saved lives, rescued homeless children, and recovered priceless jewels (which she didn't get to keep). But she's still stuck on the fashion beat at Washington's third-string newspaper, and her journalism career is going nowhere fast. She needs a new beat. What's a savvy reporter to do? Take a private eye class! Lacey plans to polish her investigative skills, learn to sleuth like a real PI (like her boyfriend, Vic Donovan), and maybe even catch a lead on a non-fashion-related, hard news story or two, while keeping it all under cover. But that was before she stumbled over the haute coutured corpse in the Jaguar, met the crazy students in her PI class, spent a girls' night out at the gun range, and failed Surveillance 101. All she wanted was a shot at a new beat, so why are people shooting at her? And can she hit the bull's eye before the killer shoots again?