Can a yellow-throat toucan, and lyrics from Jimmy Buffett's songs help Joy solve a month-old murder?

The central Florida town of Uncertain looms as a mere distraction for Joy Wagner when the new-to-her motorcycle breaks down under a banner publicizing the annual mud festival. Why would anyone celebrate mud? Sounds disgusting, but she's stuck here till her bike's fixed.

In less than an hour, her luck changes. She's offered pizza-for-life and a job at Moore's General Store. The job comes with two perks: a yellow-throated toucan, which is odd enough, but add to that the ghost of Merrick Moore and life takes a vociferously strange turn. The fatherly man is friendly and much loved, and related to most everyone in town. Trouble is, he's been dead a month.

Townspeople believe he died of natural causes but he insists he was murdered. Can Joy expose the killer before anyone finds out she's been getting clues from a ghost...and a toucan? More important, can she find the killer before the killer finds her?