Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris

This mystery starts with Lily Bard discovering a body at the local gym, but quickly becomes more complicated and nefarious. Racial tensions have been spiraling through the small, Southern town where Lily lives, and she finds herself drawn into an activist role. While this book is not the most probing assessment of race in the modern US that I've seen, I appreciated Ms. Harris's willingness to delve into complicated problems. The murder mystery ticked right along as well.