24-year-old Elvira Clancy adores her job writing obituaries but is feeling unfulfilled. When her newspaper falls on hard times, her boss tells her that he is unable to keep her on the payroll and she finds herself being paid per obituary overnight... When she "accidentally" kills a nasty piece of work in town, she discovers an untapped bloodlust. She relishes using ever more crafty methods to kill off the town's unpleasant residents while making them look like accidents. Unfortunately, the paper hires a suspicious new crime correspondent with a penchant for conspiracy theories--and she really, really likes him.