(3rd in Henrie O Mystery series)

One of America's most highly acclaimed mystery writers brings us another installment in the career of Henrietta 'Henrie O' Collins, an ex-reporter turned sleuth. These days, Henrie O is teaching journalism at Thorndyke University, where she encourages an ambitious student to pursue an investigative series about three unrelated and hitherto unsolved local crimes. But the student's study habits get her killed. Her body's discovered at the site of one of the three crimes she was investigating. The police and the powers-that-be at Thorndyke are rabidly against Henrie O's involvement in the case. But the stubborn, sixtysomething investigator is committed to dredging up a past everyone wants to keep buried -- even if it means placing herself firmly in the killer's path.

'A sassy heroine . . . She says what she thinks and pulls no punches.' (Chicago Sun-Times)