The Case of the Girl Who Didn't Smile

A Retired Teacher And A Baker Snoop Into The Lives Of Bottom Ridge Residents The Decaying Midwestern Rural Town Where Citizens Are Strangled By Secrets. Finding A Child'S Diary In The Body Cavity Of A Toni Doll Piques Lena Vincenti'S Interest. Wanting To Know What Happened To The Child Accused Of Arson And Murder Lena And Her Friend Alice Tricklebank Set Off On A Road Trip. The Dark Secret Of The Little Girl Is Four Decades Old. To Keep It In The Shadows A Woman Is Killed With A Baseball Bat. The Windows And Tires Of Lena'S Pink Van Are Destroyed And Alice'S Dive For The Ditch Prevents A Suv From Teaching Her To Fly. Danger Continues To Plague Both Women. Can Two Women In Their Sixties Fight Back Even Against A Gun? But The Town Doesn'T Know Alice Tricklebank Reads People. She May Flinch At The Cruel Nicknames They Have For Each Other And Be Stunned How A Town'S Guilt Warps Judgment But She Doesn'T Give Up Easily. She Has Her Own Friendships To Preserve And Her Own Secrets To Keep.