It's October in small-town Narrow Creek, North Carolina, and Dee Ann Bulluck is set for a fun morning of picking pumpkins when five-year-old Heather discovers a lady "taking a nap" in Elmer's Pumpkin Patch. The attractive, well-dressed woman in stiletto heels isn't asleep-she's dead-and amateur detective Dee Ann wonders about the identity of this stranger and who strangled her. As usual, husband Joe advises her to stay out of police...