Description: "It's a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort dies amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since 's not until Holmes and Russell arrive at Justice Hall, a home of unearthly perfection set in a garden modled on Paradise, that they fully understand the irony echoed in the family motto, Justica fortitudo mea est: Righteousness is my strength. A trail of ominous clues leads Holmes and Russell from English hamlet to fashionable Paris to the wild prairie of the New World the moment of reckoning approaches, will justice be done ... or have they been lured straight into an elusive killer's perfectly baited trap."--Back cover.
Review Quotes: "Fascinating."--Orlando Sentinel
"A spellbinding mystery...superb."--Washington Post "Audacious...Mary Russell is never less than fascinating company."--Los Angeles Times