Martha Grimes

Richard Jury, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, suspects there is a connection between three separate women found dead on his turf, but has to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico to prove his theory.

Twelve-year-old Emma Graham becomes obsessed with the story of Mary-Evelyn Devereau--a girl just Emma's age who drowned in Spirit Lake forty years earlier. In the course of her investigation, Emma learns secrets best left untold and must make some grown-up decisions about right and wrong.