Clio at War

An unsolved crime . . .

When eleven-year-old Clio’s WWII-correspondent mother dumps her at her great-aunts’ mansion in Southern Oklahoma, Clio embroils herself in a decades-old mystery of missing women.

Three missing women . . .

Transported from freedom in New York City to the rigid guardianship of great-aunts, the precocious Clio sets about solving the puzzle of disappearing women, a problem that no one wants to discuss.

A desperate scheme . . .

An admirer of the ancient mapmaker Ptolemy, Clio maps her own war against a serial killer, unmasking suspects and long-held secrets, as she tries to understand why her mother fled her childhood home and left her with two odd aunts in a strange world.