Peggy Gardner

Clio at War Peggy Gardner

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.