A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly
entertaining, Agatha Christie¬inspired mystery of murder and mayhem set
in nineteenth-century Poland¶"An ingenious marriage of comedy and
crime."--Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate and author of the Man Booker
International Prize winner Flights¶ Cracow, 1893: Zofia
Turbotynska--professor's wife, socialite, and bored homemaker--has
little more to do than plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy
residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when
one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving
crime. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural
cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone
but her loyal cook Franciszka and one reluctant nun. With her husband
blissfully unaware of her secret, Zofia remakes herself into one the
most surprising, and maybe even effective, detectives combing the city
streets. But what will it take for her to find the killer. . .before she
becomes the next victim?