Chiana Ryan is an almost-13-year-old wannabe crime writer. When a babysitter friend discovers a dead body in her garden, Cha decides to use all her super-sleuth talents to hunt down the murdererand just maybe win the online crime-writing contest with her story. Its not as if theres any lack of clues. First, theres the suspicious pink handkerchief with the letter K embroidered in the corner. Then a bent old man in a grey cardigan and baggy trousers tells Chiana all about the two aliens who landed their spacemobile on the church roof. And what about the disappearing body that turns up two days later in the garden shed? With the help of her friends and against the firm advice of a local police officer, Cha leaps into the mystery, and almost too late discovers theres a big difference between a mystery story and the real thing.