Miss Kopp Investigates

Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways. Winter 1919: Norma is summoned home from France, Constance is called back from Washington, and Fleurette puts her own plans on hold as the sisters rally around their recently widowed sister-in-law and her children. How are the four women going to support themselves? A chance encounter offers Fleurette an exciting, lucrative solution: clandestine legal work for a former colleague of Constance’s. On the sly, she becomes a “professional co-respondent,” posing as the “other woman” in divorce cases so that photographs can be entered as evidence to procure a divorce. When one client’s suspicious behavior leads Fleurette to uncover a much larger crime, she finds herself in the family business and in the unlikely position of amateur detective. In Miss Kopp Investigates, Amy Stewart brilliantly captures the women of this era—their ambitions for the future as well as the ties that bind—at the start of a promising new decade and once again provides “smart, fun, staunchly feminist entertainment” (Kirkus Reviews).