"When a prominent city councilor turns up dead in his posh condo, the police are content to call it suicide, but reporter Sebastian Casey thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it on his own"--Provided by publisher.
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.
Grace Monroe, elected to the Los Angeles city council on a Christian platform, is forced to question her life and her faith when a dark secret from her husband's past threatens everything she loves and has worked to achieve.