It's April in Wild Crabapple, Alabama, and Brother Rusty Stegall, pastor of the Baptist church, gets a shock when he steps into the baptistry and finds it already occupied by a body. Not just any body, but one of the town's stellar lights. Before the investigation is over, the secret lives of several prominent Wild Crabapplians are revealed. Who is blackmailing the bank president and the county superintendent of education? Why does the church pianist falsely confess to the murder? Why is the Library Board in danger of going to jail? Will the librarian find romance with a Birmingham stock broker? Wild Crabapple will never be the same.