Dovetails for the Disenchanted

As Paloma is entranced by a mysterious stranger on Christmas Eve, her mother suspects a murderer is in their midst. Meanwhile, Lysander is haunted by a disturbing childhood secret as his young daughter becomes obsessed with a crow’s funeral. Helena is sent into a tailspin of doubt by a crumpled note she discovers in her husband’s pocket, and Alice finds new meaning in her mother’s dying words as she makes an exotic pilgrimage to scatter her ashes.All this and more entangles the Spring Fed Lake family as they take their final bows in the series’ inevitable end . . . or could it be but a new beginning for them all?Clarissa Bell performed and taught flamenco dance in the Los Angeles area for many years before moving to the Monterey Peninsula. Her previous work is included in the Library of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.