When Harley Carter was a teenager he experienced 15 minutes of fame when he solved the mystery of a serial killer plaguing his small town. Now years later Harley has become a famous Hollywood actor playing a grown-up version of what he actually was as a kid. And it's wearing on him. After an embarrassing public meltdown in Hollywood Harley returns to his hometown to take a break but finds that he can't leave solving mysteries behind. Carter taps into his acting experience to become a real-life detective partnering with (and reconnecting to) his childhood friends no-nonsense police veteran Sam Shaw and witty street-wise coffee truck owner Dave Leigh.