Time stands still in swan's Knob. Weddings and funerals provide the entertainment, and that's the way folks like it. There's a right way to behave here, and Wilma Mabry, resident widowed piano teacher, is a fine example: she's tidy, she's upstanding, and if there are skeletons in her closet, no one's bothered to look for them.

On the day a local policeman is shot on the highway - a shocking crime in this mountain hideaway - everything unravels. Wilma's prodigal daughter Sarah arrives on her doorstep, pregnant and broken-hearted. Sarah's clueless husband Harper swiftly follows - just two steps ahead of Jonah Branch, a mysterious stranger who seems to know Sarah rather too well.

Soon Wilma finds herself feeding a murder suspect, hiding erotic photographs in her organ bench, going out on her first date in twenty years and, to her astonishment, solving a crime.

Unashamedly warm, delightfully witty and utterly charming, The Piano Teacher will transport you to a town in the Blue Ridge mountains that you won't want to leave.