About the book: 2001 / After a scandalous divorce from her husband, Elizabeth Stewart comes to a small provincial town to start life over and becomes the owner of the city newspaper. Elizabeth and her a teenage son is an uninvited guest in the quiet town of Still Creek. Everyone here, including the sheriff, treats strangers with hostility. Elizabeth especially felt this after she discovered the body of a well-known businessman in the city at a construction site outside the city and began her own investigation into the murder..