A Virtuous Woman

A Woman's Place?

Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.

Until someone killed her.

Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled: The police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and that she got what was due her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death.

Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Wome...