A $600,000 bequest has created factions in the Glory Community Church. The bequest was given to support the church’s music program. The traditionalists want the church to use the money for a new pipe organ while younger members of the congregation push for equipping an auxiliary sanctuary with instruments and a sound system for more contemporary style services.
Innkeeper Emma McCall is part of the church choir but she hasn’t paid much attention to the controversy. That changes when a VW Beetle is deposited on her inn’s front porch one morning–along with a note criticizing her lack of support for the contemporary music service. It seems that there have been a series of pranks around town, possibly related to the church controversy. The police, including Rafe Neilson, the handsome deputy chief who comes to talk to Emma, think that the pranks don’t rise to the level of crimes. That changes when Lily Kirk, retired librarian and head of the traditionalist faction, dies in a suspicious car accident. Was Lily’s death related to the church controversy or something in Lily’s past? As Emma pokes her nose in the investigation, Officer Neilson notices more than just that cute nose.
This is the novel that kicks off the Benrey’s Glory, North Carolina series.
Check this title’s availability in the UNC-Chapel Hill Library catalog.
