Sins of Omission — L.J. Breedlove

Somewhere, Bob Anderson -- local banker, city council member, and now murder victim -- had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wanted the files; no one could find them .

Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper, A northerner, she's got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and to Texas in general -- she tells her friends back home that this is her foreign correspondent years. She's understaffed, overworked, and just grateful to getting the newspaper out every day.

Now everyone thinks she has the files. Someone wants them bad enough to kill. He's killed once, and he's willing to do it again to keep his sins hidden.