The trouble begins at Custis Hall, an exclusive girlsβ school in Virginia that has gloried in its good name for nearly two hundred years. At first, the outcry is a mere tempest in a silver teapotβa small group of students protesting the schoolβs exhibit of antique household objects crafted by slavesβand headmistress Charlotte Norton quells the ruckus easily. But when one of the two hanging corpses ornamenting the studentsβ Halloween dance turns out to be realβthe body of the schoolβs talented fund-raiser, in factβCharlotte and the entire community are stunned. Everyone liked Al Perez, or so it seemed, yet his murder was particularly unpleasant.
Even βSisterβ Jane Arnold, master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, beloved by man and beast, is at a loss, although she knows better than anyone where the bodies are buried in this community of land-grant families and new-money settlers. Aided and abetted by foxes and owls, cats and hounds, Sister picks up a scent that leads her in a most unwelcome direction: straight to the heart of the foxhunting crowd. The chase is on, not only for foxes but also for a deadly human predator.
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