The Stories We Tell: A Homefront Mystery: 2

Its December 1942 and Betty Ahern is enjoying her fledgling career as a private detective investigating everything from missing jewelry to wandering boyfriends. But when Bell Airplane co-worker Emilia Brewka whose grandmother recently died wants Betty to prove the death was murder and not natural causes Betty thinks Emilias grief has her seeing things that arent there. After a member of the visiting Polish government in exile is murdered she learns the grandmother may have contacted him about a secret involving a wealthy Buffalo family-a secret that goes all the way back to the Old Country and the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war. Suddenly murder looks more than possible. Betty and her friends travel between Buffalos working-classneighborhoods and the citys high society determined to unearth thesecret andfind justice for Emmies grandmother. But mixing with the upper class quickly becomes dangerous and potentially deadly-both for Bettys career as a detective and herself.