Small-town gossip can be murder—especially when a ruthless blackmailer is involved.  As the annual Autumn Festival gets under way, Old Main Street is in an uproar over a proposed nonsmoking ban throughout the historic district.  Then a vicious murderer strikes.  It’s truly a case of “speak no evil” as amateur sleuths Kate Lawrence and Margo Farnsworth race to discover the truth before a local business owner is unjustly convicted of murder, or even more unthinkably, Kate’s daughter Emma falls under suspicion.

In the background, Kate’s longtime romance hits the rocky shoals of culture shock, Margo is caught up in an unlikely romance of her own, and Emma is intrigued by a man in uniform.  When Kate is forced off the road by a sinister Trans Am, she knows that she has been warned.  Can she identify the murderer in time, or will someone’s slip of the tongue make her the next victim?