Curator Elena Oliverez finds herself the prime suspect in the murder of unpopular museum director Frank de Palma, crushed to death by a controversial new bequest, a full-size ceramic tree

Elena Oliverez, a museum director in Santa Barbara, is determined to find the reason for the murder of Ciro Sisneros, a popular local history writer

The bestselling author of The McCone Files teams up with the creator of the "Nameless Detective" for a collaborative mystery that bridges the San Franciscos of 1894 and 1986. Muller and Pronzini masterfully parallel the investigations of turn-of-the-century detective Quincannon and Chicana amateur sleuth Elena Oliverez.