This book is on the November IndyNext list and had a fascinating premise--a 29 year old woman discovers, 2 years after the death of her single mother, that she's adopted. With only an old class ring to go by, she begins to research her origins,and runs into a small town in Minnesota that protects it's secrets and scandals to the point of killing to keep them quiet. Martha Powers is an award winning author with at least 10 books in print, and this is not her first time on the BookSense/IndyNext list. While there is some violence, and at least two murders, the gore in kept to a minimum so I would classify this as a "cozy" mystery with a definite small town, old fashioned feel to it. 
 Jackie