Synopses & Reviews
The disappearance of an unpopular university colleague, "gone before anyone told her that they loved her"...the enigma of the nameless toddler who walks out of the bushes one New England summer afternoon...the coldblooded murder of Mrs. Byron Lloyd, shot dead during a writers' panel discussion...the theft of a seventeenth-century painting from a lonely Texas convent...
In Amanda Cross's delicately menacing short mysteries, dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. When that happens, as many devoted Cross fans know, it's time for that very private investigator, Kate Fansler, to take a hand.
In a web of irony, wit, and compassion, Amanda Cross nets a rich variety of humankind, adjusting the scales of justice so perfectly that readers will rejoice, not only for the consummate resolution of her elegant puzzles, but for the excellent company of Kate Fansler and her gifted creator.
Table of Contents
Tania's nowhere -- Once upon a time -- Arrie and Jasper -- The disappearance of Great Aunt Flavia -- Murder without a text -- Who shot Mrs. Byron Boyd? -- The proposition -- The George Eliot play -- The baroness.