In this story, British sleuth Maisie Dobbs sets off to find a runaway heiress and ends up solving the mystery of why several well-to-do murdered women were found with a bird feather at the scene of the crimes.

I like the setting of these books—interwar England—but Maisie is so reserved and stoic that even her budding romantic relationships are dry. I'm not sure if I'll continue reading the series.