March Roars

Summary: LAST BOOK IN SERIES: COLD SNAP 9781770866577March roars in and Charlotte Frayne, P.I., receives a letter asking her to help prevent a grave miscarriage of justice. The sender is Miss Olivia Brodie, an elderly resident in the Toronto House of Industry (the Poor House) who claims she witnessed two men on a nearby street, behaving in a suspicious manner. She has learned that two Black teenagers have been charged with burglary on that same street. They will be severely punished. She is sure these boys are innocent; the men she saw are the culprits. Charlotte is then hired by a Mrs. Emmeline Larkin, who says she is missing some precious jewelry; she fears the thief may be a member of her own social circle. A club of well-positioned women. These two cases take Charlotte back to connected events in the past, where there was, indeed, grave injustice.