Traveling secretary Hattie Davish is returning to her oncequiet hometown, where a deluge of deadly secrets leaves her feeling anything but welcome... When her good friend Virginia Haywards father passes away, Hattie Davish rushes to her hometown of St. Joseph, Missouri. Shes looking forward to visiting the place where she grew up, even if the circumstances bringing her there are bleak. But upon her arrival, she learns that all is not well in St. Joe. Virginia is cold and distant, Frank Haywards death is shrouded in mystery, and a string of troubling incidents have descended on Hatties alma mater, Mrs. Chaplins School for Women. Frank was the schools bookkeeper, and as Hattie begins investigating the bizarre goingson, she becomes convinced that someone other than Frank was in the casketbut who? Her search for the truth takes her from the town cemetery, to the home of an infamous outlaw, to the dungeonlike tunnels beneath the State Lunatic Asylumand brings her facetoface with a killer bent on the deadliest lesson of all...

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 497.84 g; Dimensions: N/A

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