Arlo Stanley runs a bookshop with coffee counter with her friend Chloe Carter in the town of Sugar Springs. She's hoping a book signing with famous author and former Sugar Springs golden boy Walter Harrison will boost her sales. Her hopes are quickly dashed when Walter (Wally) is found dead on the pavement in front of her story.

Was it suicide? But why jump from a three storey building? If you don't land right, you're crippled for life.

Or was it murder? Plenty of people may have wanted Wally dead:
Chloe, the ex-girlfriend he left pregnant;
Daisy, the wife that was cheated on;
Inna, the "assistant" / mistress;
Travis, whose brother was killed in a car crash that involved Wally.

When the police arrest Chloe and charge her with the murder, Arlo is sure her friend is innocent and she must prove this before her friend is taken to county jail.

I liked this book. It was well-written and engaging. The three ladies from the book club make a good sleuthing team, though they lack subtlety. I liked all the characters and there was no one I wanted to slap upside the head, though I wouldn't have minded if Arlo had yelled at Mads some.

I fail to understand why Mads was thought of as a good cop. Good in the sense of doing his job well. He kept saying he arrested Chloe because of the evidence, but why did no one point out the evidence he had was not really up to snuff? One bit was circumstantial, another needed explaining and a third just made no sense. And he should have been more thorough questioning possible witnesses. I'm sure he should have been able to figure out on his own that his arrest of Chloe was premature.

I read an ARC through Netgalley.