Hayden Konig, the chief of police in the small Appalachian town of St. Germaine, North Carolina, has yet to realize his lifelong dream of writing the next great hard-boiled mystery novel and hopes that purchasing Raymond Chandler's typewriter will help. Meanwhile, St. Barnabas Church, where Konig is the part-time organist and choir director, suddenly comes into sixteen million dollars and the congregation can't agree how to spend it. When a dead body turns up, Konig must find the murderer among the many suspects.
