Can't Judge a Book By Its Murder - Amy Lillard

It’s reunion time for the Sugar Springs High School class of 2002, and Arlo Stanley isn’t exactly looking forward to seeing her old classmates. She may have realized her dream of owning a bookstore, but some of her classmates have gone on to play professional football and gotten into politics.

But when news gets out that Wally Harrison, who just completed a 10-week run at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for his thriller, will be attending, the whole town is in a frenzy. Arlo soon finds, however, that Wally’s novel has a few too many similarities to a 15-year-old cold case involving one of Sugar Springs’ favorite citizens—and things get even stranger when Wally turns up dead.

The ladies who attend Friday Night Book Club at Arlo’s store can’t help but put their heads together to try to figure out what is going on in their sleepy little southern town.