Charlie Harris has settled back in his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, with his towering Maine coon cat, Diesel, for company. Between his library work and quiet walks with Diesel on a leash, life feels pleasantly uneventful—until a notorious author comes back to town.
Godfrey Priest may be a bestselling novelist, but Charlie remembers him as a manipulative bully. Apparently, so does everyone else in Athena. By lunchtime, Godfrey has already picked a fight. By dinnertime, he’s dead.
Suddenly, Charlie finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation. With an overeager deputy ready to arrest the wrong person, Charlie and Diesel must dig into old grudges and secrets to uncover the truth.
In Athena, every bookshelf hides a clue, and some rivalries never die.
