Just when you think that things are getting resolved, another major event takes place. When her handyman is found dead in her back yard, Tyler realizes that some of the questions she has been asking have hit someone too close to home and she begins to fear for her own life.Īnd like the first book also, this one is intricately plotted. Tyler-who broke up with her last lover ten years before-even gets a crush on her. She is befriended and helped by the owner of the local grocery, and her cousin-once a snooty belle-who has become a feminist organizer and mother or foster mother to mixed-race children. Ad she cries a lot over one thing or another, which is kind of unexpected in “a majestic Amazon” so outwardly strong and mentally capable.įreed from the task of volunteering at a women’s crisis center, she is able to actually enjoy the beauty in nature as well as the joy and hard work or restoring her grandmother’s house as she asks questions of the locals about her family’s history.
She is much more convivial, more gregarious than the virtual hermit she was in California. Tyler, although she has no qualms about instructing people about politically incorrect language (“I’m not a lady.”), seems to come out of her shell a little in Minnesota. But it is not a clichéd feminism, like we find in, say, Valerie Miner’s Murder in the English Department, but a well-thought-out agenda. Like the first book in this series, this book is feminist in nature. When she finds out that she has been willed the family property in upstate Minnesota-property that her mother has told her contains hidden family secrets-Tyler decides to take leave from her job and drive to Minnesota to check things out. As the story opens, she has just suffered the loss of her mother, and is deeply affected by it.
She has finished her book about violence against women and become fairly well known in feminist circles.
Tyler is still writing a syndicated column for her newspaper and still owns her house in California.
She has turned 39 and her dog Aggie has turned from a border collie into a golden retriever. A couple of years have passed since Tyler’s first adventure.
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