Assistant Police matron, Anna Blanc, is out in Griffith Park with her fiancée, Officer Joe Singer and about to finally get shagged when they find the body of a man who has been shot in the forehead.

Next, Anna is put in-charge of a young girl who was sent away from home by her step-mother and met at the train station by a much older woman. The woman takes the young girl in and to her establishments; the Jonquil Café & Jonquil Residence Apartments for Professional Women, where she is given food & shelter in exchange for bodily services.

Later while Anna & Joe are lunching (investigating) at the Jonquil Café, they notice two older men with two underage girls, and thus begins an investigation.... they later find that the dead man in Griffith Park once worked at the Jonquil Café.

Meanwhile someone is anonymously sending Anna huge bouquets of exotic flowers

I'm so very torn by this series: while I do like the plot & story line, I sincerely hate that somewhere after the middle of every book the main character, Anna Blanc, Always Turns Into an Obnoxious Emotional Idiot: What the hell is with that.... It is most annoying and makes me want to put the book down as the trait really discredits Anna's ability as a competent detective. It also proves the point of the Victorians that women naturally are hysterical and given to bouts of insanity.

Also turning me against Anna, is her continual harassing of her fiancée, police office Joe Singer.. whom she desperately want to shag, but is always harassing him, doing things to hurt him, and continually breaking up with him.

I'm tired of all of immaturity & emotional b.s.: it is insipid and does nothing to make for a likeable/believable character.

I'm knocking off 2 stars because of the unmitigated & unending arrogance and idiocy of the main character, it really is pathetic and leaves one without sympathy for her when she gets a comeuppance.