Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions

Constance Kopp is back-with a badge and a taste for justice.

Constance has finally earned her deputy sheriff's badge and is ready to tackle a new kind of case. She is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong-willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, certainly doesn't belong behind bars. And sixteen-year-old runaway Minnie Davis, with few prospects and fewer friends, shouldn't be publicly shamed and packed off to a state-run reformatory. But such were the laws-and morals-of 1916. Constance uses her authority as deputy sheriff, and occasionally exceeds it, to investigate and defend these women when no one else will. But it's her sister Fleurette-who runs away from their sleepy farm to join the glamorous world of vaudeville-who puts Constance's beliefs to the test. Is there a wayward girl in her own family?

Set against the backdrop of World War I and drawn from the true story of the Kopp sisters, Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions is a spirited, page-turning story that will delight fans of historical fiction and lighthearted detective fiction alike.