Stella Ryman and the Search for Thelma Hu

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stella remembered Mad Cassandra Browning's words: </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There is danger Stella Ryman</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. She shoved a hand deep into her pocket and wrapped her fingers around the keys to every door in Fairmount Manor Care Home. </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What had Thelma asked for?</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A real crime</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. This morning Stella could smell crime as clearly as the aromas of breakfast that wafted along the twisting Fairmount Manor corridors.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Octogenarian sleuth Stella Ryman returns to investigate a perplexing care home mystery that precipitates the disappearance of her closest friend the fragile and fierce Thelma Hu.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Greek Chorus spells out Thelma's doom: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Those who leave Fairmount seldom return.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stella's only hope to find Thelma and bring her home is to escape Fairmount Manor and head out alone armed with her wiles and the resilience born of long experience - through the big city that she never thought she'd see again.</span></p><p></p>