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The Filbert Steps
Paperback
Series: The Telegraph Hill Mysteries, Book 1
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Sutro House Press
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A body on the steps. A neighborhood that saw nothing.
Vivian Salvatore came back to Telegraph Hill with a cat, a divorce, and a book she can't seem to write. At fifty-two, she's learning how to begin again.
Then she finds one of the city's most ambitious developers dead on the third landing.
The police call it a fall. But after twenty-seven years of reading teenagers' faces, Vivian knows when a story doesn't fit. A wrongly buttoned coat. A misplaced cigarette. Storefronts quietly sold to a Delaware post-office box.
Her questions uncover secrets about money, loyalty, grief, and who really gets to call a place home.
A warm, atmospheric San Francisco mystery with a sharp-eyed midlife sleuth and a neighborhood worth coming back to.
Perfect for fans of:
- Intelligent cozy mysteries
- Amateur sleuths
- Strong older female protagonists
- Found family and neighborhood stories
- Atmospheric mysteries set in real places
Book One in The Telegraph Hill Mysteries.
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