Chloe Abbington and her sister, Izzie, run a paint party business in a tranquil western New York lakeside town. Their aunt Constance has hooked them up with a gig on Halloween: The guests will be painting a local legend, the Lady of Chautauqua Lake, who died a century earlier and rises from the lake every October. After one of the partygoers is discovered floating face down in the lake, Constance looks like the culprit, and in this sequel to A Brush with Murder, Chloe and Izzy rush to their aunt's aid.