"A regional mystery that is mesmerizing"
Port Silva is a small bucolic, visually quiet town in
Northern California with a population of 25,000 which means
everybody knows their neighbors to some degree. Patience
Mackellar was married to a policeman when he caught a
bullet and ended up in a wheelchair. Together they opened
a private investigation agency, but now that she is a
widow, she continues with the business because she enjoys
it. She also has a junior partner, her thirty-year-old
daughter Verity who just returned home after her three-year-
old marriage turned sour and brutal. Their latest client
is David Simonov, whose wife divorced him to marry his best
friend Dev Costello. David also gave up custodial rights
to his daughter but now he thinks they may be in trouble
and he wants them found. During the course of the
investigation, Verity bounces from one predicament to
another nearly getting herself killed trying to locate Lily
and Sylvia. Port Silva is the type of town anyone desiring to
escape the big city would like to live in. Characters from
the first book in the Port Silva series make cameo and
recurring appearances leading to a feeling of continuity to
this series. Janet La Pierre has written an entertaining
character driven who-done-it that provides plenty of
enjoyment for that cool fall night reading. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted August 21, 2001
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