The Filbert Steps

A body on the steps. A neighborhood that saw nothing.Vivian Salvatore came back to Telegraph Hill with a cat, a divorce, and a book she can't seem to write. At fifty-two, she's learning how to begin again.Then she finds one of the city's most ambitious developers dead on the third landing.The police call it a fall. But after twenty-seven years of reading teenagers' faces, Vivian knows when a story doesn't fit. A wrongly buttoned coat. A misplaced cigarette. Storefronts quietly sold to a Delaware post-office box.Her questions uncover secrets about money, loyalty, grief, and who really gets to call a place home.A warm, atmospheric San Francisco mystery with a sharp-eyed midlife sleuth and a neighborhood worth coming back to.Perfect for fans of: - Intelligent cozy mysteries- Amateur sleuths- Strong older female protagonists- Found family and neighborhood stories- Atmospheric mysteries set in real placesBook One in The Telegraph Hill Mysteries.