The Silver Shawl: A Mrs. Meade Mystery (The Mrs. Meade Mysteries, #1)

A girl has disappeared...but did she go of her own accord?

In a small town in turn-of-the-century Colorado, a young woman has disappeared from the boarding-house where she lives. Her distraught fiancé is certain that she must have been kidnapped. But the case takes a new turn when a city detective appears on the scene, looking for a woman who matches the description of the missing girl. Was Charity really kidnapped, or did she have a reason to flee? Mrs. Meade, a gentle but shrewd widow lady...