Still reeling from the violence she encountered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in The Big Sugar, Brigid Reardon presses on to Salt Lake City to settle down in what she hopes is a safe community. Things look promising when she's hired to work at the Desert Bookstore and offered a room in the home of her employer, Mr. Cutter, a high-ranking member of the Church of Latter-day Saints, and his five wives. Despite Brigid's conflicting feelings about polygamy, she finds the Cutter wives warm and welcoming, and she thinks she may finally be happy here. As she settles in, Brigid learns that Mr. Cutter wants another wife, and he is set on Amelia, the daughter of one of his wives from a previous marriage. When Mr. Cutter is found apparently murdered in the women's sewing room, each of the wives (plus Amelia and Mr. Cutter's son) is a suspect, and Brigid knows it's up to her to figure out just who did it. Brigid teams up with the local coroner to investigate--and with her undeniable knack for detection, it's not long before she discovers a telltale clue.
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