During the local college's annual Honor's Day festivities, a graduate student is killed. When the English professor suspected of his murder also meets an untimely end, Tallulah Jones steps up to clear the professor's name.

Tallulah Jones may be the proprietor of Dalliance, Texas's old-fashioned ice-cream parlor, but she's no stranger to cold-blooded murder. No one is more shocked than Tally when the local college serves up a double dip of death. During the annual Honor's Day festivities, Tally's niece Alice stumbles upon the body of a graduate student. Suspicion falls on the English professor the student had accused of sexual harassment, but, a couple days later, the professor's found dead too. Tally steps out from behind the counter of Remember the A-la-mode to clear the professor's name. But in an English department sprinkled with failing students, cutthroat academics, and extramarital affairs, the list of suspects rivals A-la-mode's choice of flavors. When Alice gets chillingly close to a killer, Tally realizes she must act fast before someone else is put on ice.