It's Founder's Day in New Conover, North Carolina, and the festivities are lively. So lively, in fact, that Harrison Black - owner of At Wick's End - doesn't hear the shot that kills Gretel Barnett. True, her candle shop was a rival to his store. And true, his ruthless competitor was shot mere feet away from him. But that doesn't mean Harrison did it. And when the wife of the town's newspaper editor points to him as the killer, he has to figure out who extinguished Gretel - and fast.
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It's Founder's Day in New Conover, North Carolina, and the festivities are lively. So lively, in fact, that Harrison Black - owner of At Wick's End - doesn't hear the shot that kills Gretel Barnett. True, her candle shop was a rival to his store. And true, his ruthless competitor was shot mere feet away from him. But that doesn't mean Harrison did it. And when the wife of the town's newspaper editor points to him as the killer, he has to figure out who extinguished Gretel - and fast.