A Red Herring Without Mustard

'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' So begins eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure
through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's
Lacey. What the fortune teller in fact claimed to see was a vision of Flavia's
mother, Harriet, who died on a mountainside in Tibet when Flavia was less than a
year old. 'She's trying to come home,' the old woman intones. 'And she needs
your help.' For Flavia, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new
possibilities - not all of them nice. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to
her powers, and the message she brings back from the other side? And when the
village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how will a growing fascination with
gypsy lore help Flavia to solve it?