Odd Caller

Someone has a puzzle for Ternwick. Della suspects its meant for her.

At Ten with Della usually has room for lost property, local notices, and a little friendly disagreement. Then an anonymous recorded contribution makes an oddly precise promise: by noon, the sunflower will face the wall.

At noon, a huge paper sunflower in a print-shop window turns its back on the street.

Della Quade can see how the flower moves. What she cannot see is who chose that message—or why two more recordings are waiting to be played. With broadcast engineer Hugh Bexley and producer Mina Pruitt, she follows the trail through Ternwicks handmade displays, old recordings, and competing ideas about a forthcoming Makers Walk.

Della enjoys a good challenge. She may be enjoying this one a little too personally.

Between a quilt that seems to change and a birthday greeting heard twice, she must learn to listen for what the evidence actually says. The town deserves a fair answer, and the people behind its clever creations deserve more than a convenient story.