Hidden Secrets on Campus

An abandoned greenhouse. A missing student. And an Agatha Christie book club that just might crack a decades-old crime. At the latest meeting of the Christie Club, hosted by English professor Jo Blue Oliver and her daughter, Millie, Agatha Christie’s Nemesis is on the menu—along with delicious treats and fascinating revelations about a real-life cold case in their West Virginia college town. Jo’s mother, Viola, shares the story of a young theater major named Delilah, who disappeared in the 1980s. A nursing home resident claimed she saw a mysterious figure dragging a rolled-up rug. Was Delilah’s body inside? Jo Blue can’t resist a cliffhanger like that, especially when there’s a chance to finally catch a killer and see justice done. As Jo digs into old news articles and visits the nursing home for clues, a new mystery emerges. College president Riley Coffman—the man Jo is developing complicated feelings for—discovers threatening notes in his home. The messages are disturbing enough, but how did the culprit get inside? Though the two mysteries are separated by decades, they may be connected—by an old campus greenhouse that’s slated for demolition. Just as the cold case resurfaces, so does a web of deadly resentment—along with a killer who thought their perfect crime would stay buried forever…