Valerie Cooper is amazed to inherit a majority partnership in the family's company, New Orleans Fine Antiques. She's also fending off Collette, a woman who wants her to sell the huge old house that Valerie and her husband painstakingly renovated. At a costume party, Valerie stumbles over Collette's body, killed by a dagger from her shop—and now she's become suspect number one. To clear her own name, Valerie embarks upon her first investigation, and the deeper she digs into Collette's business dealings, the worse it gets.