The trouble begins at Custis Hall, an exclusive girlsโ 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 teapotโa small group of students protesting the schoolโs exhibit of antique household objects crafted by slavesโand headmistress Charlotte Norton quells the ruckus easily. But when one of the two hanging corpses ornamenting the studentsโ Halloween dance turns out to be realโthe body of the schoolโs talented fund-raiser, in factโCharlotte and the entire community are stunned. Everyone liked Al Perez, or so it seemed, yet his murder was particularly unpleasant.
Even โSisterโ 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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