Jordan Poteet has left the big city to work as a librarian in his hometown of Mirabeau Texas. But his dream of the quiet life is shattered when he locks horns with Miss Beta Harcher the towns prize religious fanatic in a battle over censorship. When Jordan finds her murdered body in the library he becomes the prime suspect. And when the police find a cryptic list stashed next to her fanatical heart it seems as if Beta Harcher has the whole town in a death grip . . .
From the Paperback edition.
