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 Chappers to build it‎.‎ From the start‎,‎ the project and Mrs‎.‎ Paulson are a major headache for all involved‎.‎ But no one could foresee that it would end with Mrs‎.‎ Paulson stabbed to death at a gala fund‎-raiser with Harry s friend Tazio standing over her‎,‎ holding the knife‎.‎ Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open‎-and‎-shut case‎.‎ Her four‎-legged partners sleuthing cats Mrs‎.‎ Murphy and Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker see it Harry s way‎.‎ But will they have to choose between catching the ‎"‎purr‎"‎fect killer and saving Harry‎?‎‎"‎