Rainbow's End

A stooped old man collapses in Exeter Cathedral while examining its celebrated embroidered rondels. In Salisbury, a woman is found dead, and in London another woman's death is put down to natural causes. Readers of Martha Grimes know better than to accept that label, and so does Scotland Yard's Chief Superintendent Richard Jury.

Jury is certain the three deaths are linked, and he believes the connection runs to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He hands the London inquiries to Melrose Plant, a former earl who works as an amateur detective, and flies to America. There he meets a world of turquoise jewelry and a thirteen-year-old girl who keeps a pet coyote, and he digs into a tangle of greed, murder and chaos.