Peach Keepers by Sarah Addison Allen

I enjoyed this book, it is part history, part romance and part suspense.  Set in Walls of Water, North Carolina, it is the story of an old hotel called the Blue Ridge Madam, and two ladies who love their small town, its people, and the old hotel.  It is also about keeping and discovering secrets, old and new.

Willa, a sporting goods store owner and Paxton, a young socialite and business woman, were not very good friends in high school, Paxton was "Miss Everythng" and Willa was the high school prankster from hell.  However, the grandmothers, who are best friends, and former workers at the Madam, wish the girls were friends.  Now the two older ladies are in the same nursing home, one has alzheimers and the other is nearly blind. 

Paxton is the head of the Women's Club and is helping it celebrate its 75th anniversary.  At the same time, the Blue Ridge Madam is undergowing renovation and Paxton hopes to have the gala there.  Things are soon complicated when a skeleton is found under a peach tree.  Grandma Georgia knows who the skeleton belongs to and why he is buried there and how he died.

To tell more about the book would spoil the story.  While unraveling the mystery, realtionships are formed, friendships are tested and things will never be the same.  Read the book to see who killed the stranger under the peach tree and why it happened.