Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at a secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. First, there’s Martha Sowerby: the too-cheery maid with bothersome questions who seems out of place in the dreary manor. Then there’s the elusive Uncle Craven, Mary’s only remaining family—whom she’s not permitted to see. And finally, there are the mysteries that seem …
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He is being hunted, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamond, a violent mobster and a very big mistake.
"When the impossible has been eliminated the residuum, however improbable, must contain the truth."