Maryann Nelson's book, whose characters are based on her neighbors, is a best seller. Angry neighbors threaten her. When Reverend DeLuca visits, someone shoots at her and kills him. The investigation leads to town Doctor Egan.
When a woman in a small town writes a book whose characters are actual people in the town and it becomes a best seller, the press converge on the town to interview them. And some of them threaten the woman. When the local reverend goes to visit her, someone takes a shot at her killing the reverend. The police investigate and it leads them to one of the town's doctors who was depicted in the book as being a druggie who denies it and threatened the woman. Ben comes to defend him and he starts by checking some of the other people depicted in the book but learns none of them have reason to kill her. Later Ben discovers a different motive and suspect for the killing.—rcs0411@yahoo.com