Bodies Under the Bluebonnets

When Sara Matthews moves to China Grove, Texas, looking for a quiet place to write, she finds a photograph the previous owners left behind: two girls she doesn't recognize, smiling the kind of smile she learned to wear herself, a long time ago, in a life she doesn't talk about.

Nobody in China Grove wants to talk about the girls.

Not Jim and Sue Sutter, who've owned the town's watering hole for thirty years, keeping the bar and the community that gathers there running through weekends of live...