When unscrupulous crime scene investigators from around the country convene in a casino in Colorado, it’s up to small-town Sheriff Ellie May Lyons to solve a mysterious murder.

SYNOPSIS:

Sheriff ELLIE May Lyons (35) is happy in the little mountain town of Haven, Colorado. She’s like a daughter to BARRY GOLD (60) the gentlemanly proprietor of Gold’s Casino, Saloon, Hotel, and Restaurant. However, no one will get much sleep when a body is found behind Barry’s bar during the second annual Crime Scene Investigators conference. Luckily, Sheriff ELLIE has plenty of help to solve the murder, including the handsome Detective FRANK Redman (35) from CSI-Los Angeles, and the famous and debonair CSI-New York Detective THURMAN Slate (55). Ellie had a bit of a crush on Frank last year, and Ellie admits she was a little disappointed when the two unmarried detectives show up with their sexy partners. DIANE Ireland (38) is also single, and after her partner, Frank. Diane views Ellie as a frumpy, Andy-of-Mayberry-type public servant, but as a competitor, nonetheless. BEA White (26) is Thurman’s assigned partner for a little over a year. Bea is married, but can’t hold her martinis, while Thurman, divorced three times, is frustrated that he can’t hold Bea. Personalities clash even more when Ellie needs their help to solve the murder, because the victim has no ID, no money, no car keys, and no jacket.

Like the old days, the saloon remains the heartbeat of the town. This night, Gold’s Saloon stirs up laughter and vitriol, romance and sex, and good and evil. Ellie and her big-city detective friends soon realize that solving a murder in a small town is far more challenging without a handy coroner, fingerprint and DNA labs, and all those fancy computers found on all the major CSI TV shows. But the saloon contains everything that Ellie needs, as the detectives are drawn to a dead body like horseflies to wildflower honey! Ellie’s innate curiosity and unorthodox interrogation methods begin to unveil tiny irregularities, and inconsistencies in the behavior of the detectives, which lead her investigation in a myriad of misdirection. Nothing makes sense, and she’s over her head, but she’s not a quitter!

Over the course of one sleepless night, the four big-city detectives slowly degenerate from helpful advisors to untrustworthy suspects; especially after Barry’s priceless silver dollar collection goes missing. Everyone has secrets. And little lies, inconsequential when Ellie first hears them, begin to reveal the ugly truth. However, Ellie in her bathrobe and pink-fluffy slippers may be no match for the handsome, sexy, and impeccably dressed detectives from New York and L.A. But who is playing whom? In the end, Sheriff Ellie May Lyons uncovers the whereabouts of Barry’s silver dollar collection, and captures a murderer, a thief, and a rapist among the five other people in the saloon. How’d she do it? Haven gotta clue!

HAVEN GOTTA CLUE