It's autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia - a time for golden days, crisp nights...and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted "come here" set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She's determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends - and enemies - and she's hired architect Tazio Chappars to build it.