A Garden Variety Mystery follows Ivy, an average college student who if it was up to her she would just go to class and smoke weed, while working her side hustle as an amateur private investigator catching cheating boyfriends for extra cash. Unfortunately, she is pushed out of her comfort zone when a freshman student Delilah shows up at her door begging Ivy to find out who framed her for plagiarism. Now Ivy with the help of her trusty best friend and roommate, Paul, is on the case.