The usually quiet and quirky town of Shakespeare Arkansas is once again confronted with violence and it will be up to local cleaning lady Lily Bard to get to the root of the problem before more people end up heart or dead.

The trouble starts one morning when she arrives at the gym and finds one a fellow member dead, having had his throat crushed under some equipment. At first people believe it might have been an accident, but it quickly becomes clear that there is more going on as other incidents start happening around town. All of them seem to have racial undertones and range from a church bombing to pamphleteering of local cars.

To make things even more interesting, Lily finds herself repeatedly running into a mysterious man who seems both interested in her and in the bad things going on in the small community. He clearly works for the richest family in town, but has he been hired to be a bodyguard or something else. Either way, Lily is intrigued.

Fortunately, she is able to use her time at the various people's homes to learn more about what is going on. She knows so many of the suspects well and doesn't want to believe that anyone would do such horrible things, but every community has it's secrets.

Lily is definitely an interesting reluctant detective. She really just wants to live out her life in quiet as she works to move on after the horrible things that happened to her before she moved to Shakespeare. Unfortunately, she ends up just getting pulled into the various bad things that are happening in town.

This was a really interesting second volume in the series, and I am looking forward to reading the next volume and seeing what happens to Lily in the future.