Realtor Diana Rittenhouse is as shocked as everyone else in her small North Carolina town when someone starts murdering their commissioners. The police believe the deaths are unrelated. After all, these elected officials are different in gender, race, political persuasion, and personality. Their unique domestic situations, and romantic entanglements suggest individual motives for each murder and many different suspects. But as Diana, along with her longtime lover Matthew, elderly mother Vivian, and best friend Liz are drawn into the circle of intrigue, they come to believe the only common...