Open Secrets is about a local event which is made into a popular ballad that does not have a satisfactory ending. Reported in the newspaper and retailed as gossip, it is the story of the disappearance of a teenaged girl called Heather Bell during the annual weekend hike of the Canadian Girls in Training. Though told from no single point of view (and apparently held together by snatches of the ballad of Heather Bell's disappearance) the major focalisation is through the perspective of a youngish middle-aged woman called Maureen, one of Munro's local girls who has made good by marrying her employer, this time Lawyer Stephens. Though many of the stories in Open Secrets contain transcripts of letters within their structure this is the only epistolary narrative, being composed of eleven letters written over a hundred-year period, plus one newspaper article of a pioneer's recollections.