Charlie and Diesel must catch a killer before he strikes another deadly note in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks Mysteries. Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred ΓÇ£WilΓÇ¥ Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school in Athena. Although Wil was a couple of years ahead of him and his friend Melba Gilley,Melba had a big crush on Wilwho dropped out after his junior year. An aspiring musicianWil hit the road for California and never looked back. Wil eventually became a starfronting a band and writing award-winning songs. Coming back to Athena to work for two weeks with students in the college music departmentWil is now the big man on campus. Not everyone is happy to have him backhowever. His entourage have been the target of several acts of petty harassment. At first they are easy for Wil to shrug offbut the incidents escalate and become more troubling. When one of the band members is killed Charlie worries that Melbanow deeply involved with the man at the center of the attackscould be in deadly danger. It is up to Charlie and Diesel to find out who hates Wil Threadgill enough to silence his song . . . forever!