Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in a canal of South London, her brother arrives and hires Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death.

"As the holidays approach, all is merry and bright for Inspector Witherspoon, Mrs. Jeffries, and the staff at Upper Edmonton Gardens...but murder knows no season. MURDER UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR Christopher Gilhaney isn't a popular man, and he proves why once again when he insults every guest at Abigail Chase's Guy Fawkes Night dinner party. When Gilhaney is shot dead under the cover of the night's fireworks, his murder is deemed a robbery gone wrong....

Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study the mysterious remains of a body called "The Woman in Red." Olive claims that she knows the woman's identity and can tie her infamous past to many elite Zinnia families.

Sally Solari quits her job as an attorney to help her recently widowed father run his restaurant. When her aunt is found murdered and her sous chef is the prime suspect, Sally is determined to clear his name and find the real murderer.