Sister and brother duo Lily and Robert Brewster may not
have a penny to their names, but at least they're in good
company -- times couldn't be tougher in the Hudson River
Valley during the Great Depression, and even the much-
revered chief of police has abandoned his boardinghouse.
The poor town has been stripped of its post office, too.
Now mail gets dumped off the trains steaming along the
Hudson River, and people have to rummage through the bags
to find their letters and packages.
When a shocked Robert discovers a group of gossipy old
women snooping through other people's mail -- even
threatening to destroy it! -- he knows something must be
done. Perhaps he could hire the kindly train porter, who
recently helped haul bags for a young widow and her newly
arrived German grandfather, to sort through the mail in an
orderly (and private) fashion? But when the porter is
found dead, and a red swastika is found painted on the
pretty widow's grandfather's shop window, Robert knows
that something much deeper, and much darker, is happening
in his sleepy little town.
Even back at Grace and Favor, where Lily and Robert live,
things are falling apart. The Harbinger brothers --
Voorburg's favorite handymen, who've been hired to work on
the mansion's grounds -- have just unearthed a very, very
old skeleton -- right in the Brewsters' front yard! Could
the two murders be related? It's up to Lily and Robert to
find out the truth before their quiet community is torn
apart by hatred, secrets, and a killer who may have set
his sights on Grace and Favor. . . .
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