A seaside bootmaker finds a celebrated philanthropist's shoes beside the wrong body. Everyone trusts the gentleman's impeccable reputation, but she knows the repairs, the customer's peculiar gait, and the expensive difference between being respectable and being believed.
A school reunion organizer finds an extra name on a memorial list: a woman sitting alive at the dinner table. Untangling the mistake exposes a crime the class has agreed to remember as kindness.
In 1924, a portrait painter recognizes a dinner guest whose death she helped document. When another guest is killed, she must separate an invented identity from a very real history of blackmail.