The Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush

This is a great book, even though it was easy to figure out a list of the possible suspects and narrow it down to the top few.  I suspected the culprit fairly early on. But the author presented the other possible suspects in such a way that it might have been any of them.

The main character, Emily Hartford, is living a comfortable life in Chicago when she gets that dreaded call that her father has had a heart attack and she must come immediately.  Though she has not spoken to her father in years due to lack of closure in the untimely death of her mother from long ago, she hurries to her father's side.

When she arrives back in the small town that was her home for most of her life, she finds herself needed to step into her father's shoes and act as coroner to help unravel the death of a young girl whose father just happens to be a senator.  Mix together with that coming face to face with her high school sweetheart, and you've got the makings for a great story.

                                                      If you enjoy the simplicity of a simple tale, this book is for you!