A series about Martha Bancroft, a retired Marblehead history teacher who reads the footnotes everyone else skips — and the international antiquities crimes that hide there.
When a young influencer is found dead aboard the MV Calliope, retired history teacher Martha Bancroft is drawn into a mystery stretching back a thousand years — to a lost Byzantine reliquary and the network willing to kill for it.
A second envelope arrives from Athens. It quotes a woman in an Attica cell: an English country house, a 1994 monograph, three hands in the margins. Martha Bancroft has read the monograph. Until now, not the margins.
The third Footnote Mystery follows Martha into the alpine archives of Switzerland — and a foundation that prefers its provenance to remain unread.