This story is a murder mystery that takes place in a small New England town in the year 2006. The main character is a single woman in her late thirties named Maddy Timmons, who is a second-grade teacher at Layton Elementary. As summer vacation draws to a close, Maddy heads in to school on Tuesday to prep her classroom and finish last-minute projects before the teacher workshop day on Thursday. Upon arriving at the mostly empty building, she discovers the principal lying dead in the janitorial b...