Rainy Day Women

Austin Starr Mysteries #2

by Kay Kendall

Kay Kendall's RAINY DAY WOMEN is the second book in the Austin Starr Mystery series. In 1969, during the week of the Manson murders and Woodstock, the intrepid amateur sleuth, infant in tow, flies across the continent to support a friend suspected of murdering women's liberation activists in Seattle and Vancouver. Then her former CIA trainer warns that an old enemy has contracted a hit on her. Her anxious husband demands that she give up her quest and fly back to him. How much should Austin risk when tracking the killer puts her and her baby's life in danger?



"Determined to clear a close friend who’s suspected of murdering a popular feminist leader, Austin Starr struggles to balance family and personal independence. Vivid detail of the 1960s and a clever plot make Rainy Day Woman an outstanding follow-up to Kay Kendall’s strong debut, Desolation Row.  Austin Starr is a memorable protagonist, and Kendall’s skill at crafting a compelling mystery kept me turning the pages!"
- Robert Rotstein, author of The Bomb Maker’s Son and Corrupt Practices
 
"Kay Kendall’s second Austin Starr mystery will have you believing it’s 1969 all over again. In a book where the musical references mean you’ll find yourself humming tunes now known as “classic vinyl”, Kendall peppers her work with references to the times which make the decades disappear – and she respects her readers enough to not overdo it. Her sense of place as she allows the mystery to unfold within Vancouver’s University of British Columbia, beset by the rain for which the “wet” coast is known, is pitch perfect. Hot diggity - a thoroughly enjoyable read. Now I’m off to dig out my Bob Dylan albums and find an old bra I can burn."
- Cathy Ace, Author of The Cait Morgan Mysteries, and the WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries
 

"Feminism, the '60s, murder, and a friend in big trouble. Austin Starr is back to help, leaving her husband behind but bringing her baby along. Rainy Day Women is an entertaining and fast-paced mystery set in a turbulent time. Right on!"
- Bill Crider, Anthony Award-winning author of The Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery Series
 
"An exciting jaunt back to the days of flower power and Women's Lib, Kay Kendall's RAINY DAY WOMEN explores serious issues that still resonate today, nearly fifty years later. Austin Starr's second mystery (after 2013's DESOLATION ROW) packs danger and lots of heart, and hits all the right notes in depicting the late sixties. Austin is a smart, relentless sleuth with a baby on her hip and a Makarov pistol in her macramé purse. Right on, sister!"
- James W. Ziskin, author of the Ellie Stone Mysteries, STYX & STONE, NO STONE UNTURNED, and STONE COLD DEAD

Genres: Mystery

291 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 7, 2015

About the author

Before Kay Kendall began to write books, she was an award-winning international public relations executive, working in the US, Canada, the Soviet Union, and Europe. Ask her about working in Moscow during the Cold War—and turning down a job with the CIA in order to attend grad school at Harvard. Because of her degrees in Russian history, Kay often brings Cold War elements into her tales. She takes great pains in her books to get historical settings and details right—no anachronisms allowed.
Kay is president of the Southwest Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and is a member of the national board of MWA. She and her Canadian husband live in Houston, Texas, and have rescued abandoned pet rabbits for 20 years. They have a tolerant spaniel who co-habits with the three bunnies that currently reside with them. Over the years they have rescued 14 rabbits.

Other URLs
http://austinstarr.com
https://www.facebook.com/KayKendallAu...
http://www.amazon.com/Kay-Kendall/e/B...
https://twitter.com/kaylee_kendall

Reviews

[Kathleen Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a time of women's freedom, a time of Woodstock, Charles Manson, and the Apollo moon landing. It is 1969 an amateur sleuth, Austin Starr, along with her infant son, are on their way to clear her best friends name. Her friend, Larissa is a suspect in the death of a woman's activist leader, she served the tea that was poisoned, at a meeting that all the women were. Austin and her husband David moved to Canada because they didn't believe in the Vietnam War, so David was a draft dodger. Austin had worked with the CIA, in the previous book Desolation Row, so she had some detective skills. Her husband is not real crazy about her gallivanting off to Seatle to help out her friend but he 'allows' her to go. The only way she can go is take their three-month son, Wyatt, along with her. This had to have been a lot harder to do in 1969 then it is now.

This is a time where women are still under their husbands thumb, but this is a also a time when all of how a woman is treated is changing, they are now able to pursue an education and work outside of the home. There is a big movement across the country at this time of women's liberation. There are men who do not agree that a woman should have these types of freedom. I was 16 in 1969 and by the time I was 18 women's lib was full blown. I got on the bandwagon; it was exciting. Also, this was a magical time, a lot of changes in the world going on.

Austin arrives to help find out who killed Shona and why. She is told by her previous mentor not to investigate, but she does not comply, she tries but is too determined to find out what is going on and when another female college student is found murdered, Austin feels that these two cases are intertwined as Shona had been friends with the second victim. The race is on, and when Larissa is beaten up, things get real for Austin, and it makes her more determined, against her husband's wish.

I enjoyed this story; It brought back a lot of memories of a turbulent era. I could just hear Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, long flowing hair and flower power. Watching the news with daily broadcasts of war images when I came home from school. That aside, I also enjoyed the plot, women's lib mixed with a murder mystery, active women who are determined to do what they feel is right. I look forward to Austin's growth as a character in the next installment of this story.

- See more at: http://www.celticladysreviews.blogspo...

[Laurel-Rain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kay Kendall's RAINY DAY WOMEN is the second book in the Austin Starr Mystery series. In 1969, during the week of the Manson murders and Woodstock, the intrepid amateur sleuth, infant in tow, flies across the continent to support a friend suspected of murdering women's liberation activists in Seattle and Vancouver. Then her former CIA trainer warns that an old enemy has contracted a hit on her. Her anxious husband demands that she give up her quest and fly back to him. How much should Austin risk when tracking the killer puts her and her baby's life in danger?

My Thoughts: Having enjoyed Book One in this series, I was eager to rejoin amateur sleuth Austin Starr. Following along in her adventures in Vancouver, I loved how the reader is introduced to the early feminist struggles via a women’s group.

As a backdrop, the vernacular of the 60s, the music, and the Woodstock festival, along with the Sharon Tate murders, offer up a real taste of what life was like back then.

Austin is an interesting character, determined and skilled at following clues. She was also a little bit naïve, but she made up for it by pushing ahead fearlessly. Her husband, David, opposed to her activities, seemed to take on the thoughts and feelings of a lot of men back then, worried and overly-protective.

Larissa, the daughter of a Russian immigrant, Professor Klimenko, was different in this outing. Previously, while in Toronto, she had been awed by Austin, but in this setting, and probably because she was a suspect in her friend Shona’s murder, she seemed brusque and irritable.

As Austin accompanied Larissa to the women’s lib group, she met other friends of Shona’s, and also a few rivals in the group. How did Shona’s former roommate Mia fit into what happened to her? Were her brashness and her violent ups and downs a factor? How does Becky, another woman in the group, recently separated from her controlling husband, add to the questions Austin has? Did Shona’s ex-boyfriend Jack have a motive to have killed her? Or would the answers lie closer to home in the chemistry lab, with the graduate students?

I did enjoy watching Austin zero in on the killer, and in an exciting finale, bring justice for her friend and the other women in the group. In the end, there were also unresolved threads in the form of an ex-US Senator who had been tailing her. I can see a Book Three on the horizon. 4.5 stars.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a book category I usually read but the author is a friend so I support her heartily. She handled this one more skillfully than the last one.

[Linda Zagon · Rating 5 out of 5]

MY REVIEW OF “RAINY DAY WOMEN’ by KAY KENDALL
KUDOS to Kay Kendall , author of “Rainy Day Woman” for amazing, memorable descriptions of the late sixties. I can hear the music, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary. The sixties were the time of the Vietnam protests and draft dodgers, hippies, Woodstock, feeling free, and woman’s liberation. The author depicts the sense of the sixties perfectly. The genres of this book are Mystery and Fiction.
The author describes the characters as complicated and complex. This was a time of wanting to be independent, involved with significant causes, and the importance of feeling free. The main character, Austin Starr is combining the roles of wife, young mother to a three-month old and student. Austin has some CIA training and in the first book Austin helped solve a crime. I love the way the author starts the story,”I STOOD, CAREFUL not to make any noise, afraid to waken the sleeping ogre.”…..”What did it matter if my escape took ten minutes? Breaking free was what counted.” Now I was on edge, wanting to know what was going on. The author has a gift of telling her story and describing her characters.
Austin gets a call from a close friend, who is a suspect in a murder. Austin reminds me of a grown Nancy Drew, and has the need to help her friend. Austin and her husband live in Canada. Although her husband is not officially a draft dodger, his beliefs are against fighting and war. He is a graduate student at the University in Canada. Austin convinces her husband David to let her go and provide support for her friend, but she has to take her three-month old baby with her. David warns her to stay out of trouble and leave the investigating to the proper officials. Austin will be staying with her friend’s family.
Austin’s friend is a member of a group of women who are supportive of women’s liberation The murdered victim was a member as well. Austin’s friend works in a chemistry laboratory, and there is tremendous tension and competition at work. There are a number of characters who could be suspect for the murder.
I appreciate that the author brings up relevant topics of the times: women’s liberation and equality, and feelings about fighting and war. Other topics that were discussed were incest, and homosexuality. The tension and hostility of the times, and the way the characters responded to it is part of historical significance.
I really enjoyed, the mystery, the intrigue, and the adventure and would highly recommend this entertaining and captivating novel. I received a copy for my honest review.

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Set in 1969, this tale interestingly combines murder mystery with women's fiction. A Texan young wife and mother is living in Canada with her husband, who is thus avoiding the Vietnam draft. Both are students. When a friend of Austin's who's a student in Vancouver calls to say the Mounties suspect her of poisoning a woman in university, our heroine jumps on a plane with her three-month old baby to support her pal. I am not sure how realistic this is with the small child to consider, but she's determined. I did find the start of the tale slow as nothing else really happens in the first third of the book.

At this time we see that a female chemistry student is not made welcome by the men in the lab, while a women's lib group boasts a variety of ladies and age groups enough to startle even Austin.

A Russian family is involved but nobody says anything about Reds, communists or spies. Odd for the times I would have thought. The space race is on and the Apollo moon landing has just occurred. There's also a trip across the American border, and a traditional Jewish family to visit. So lots of variety. The crime seems nigglingly reliant on who had access to what but don't forget we also need a motive.

Choosing to have an amateur sleuth who is a happy wife and mother but looking into early women's lib issues is a great move and along with the well-observed characters means I will be looking forward to seeing what this author does next.

I'm surprised by the amount of adulation given by some characters to The Edible Woman by Atwood. In this book, an educated Canadian woman feels that she is being subsumed in her marriage and may disappear or be swallowed by her husband's identity. She does nothing about it except have panic attacks. I read this in far more recent times and thought it was a waste of the character's brainpower. Why didn't she decide to do something to give herself her own identity? Like the heroine of The Women's Room by Marilyn French, admittedly written about a decade later? As a small child I read books that showed boys going out and having adventures and girls staying in the house and helping with housework. I instantly decided that I was going to do what boys did. This is not difficult if a four-year-old can make up her mind on such a tiny sampling of the world.

[Gloria Feit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Austin Starr lives with her husband, David, and three-month-old baby, Wyatt, in Toronto, where they have moved from their home in Cuero in south Texas [population 7,000] because of David’s status as a draft resister – this does take place in the late 1960’s. One evening she receives a phone call from 21-year-old Larissa, her dear friend who is 2 years younger than Austin, calling from her temporary home in Vancouver to tell her that her close friend, Shona, has died; worse, that she was murdered, and that she, Larissa, was the Mounties’ prime suspect.

Shona was a grad student in the Chem Lab at the University of British Columbia. It was initially deemed to be an accident which occurred just before the women’s lib meeting was to start, till the police say she was poisoned. Just to complicate matters a little more, another UBC student was killed, at about the same time as Shona. Larissa begs Austin to come out to help her, which she does [over her husband’s objections]. (Her last sleuthing job was when David was a murder suspect, ending after he had spent ten days in jail. That one left her thinking that “nosing around the debris left behind by murder was not a frolicsome pursuit.”) This time around she has to get Larissa free from suspicion and out of trouble.

This book clearly evokes the days of bellbottoms, the anti-war protests, Woodstock, the Sharon Tate murder, and the days when Women’s Lib was a big topic over the country.

Interestingly, most chapters run less than ten pages, only one coming in at 11.

As to the title, most of the tale takes place in Vancouver, where every day is a day filled with rain, if not a complete deluge.

An intriguing plot and a race to identify suspects and find the killer keep the pages turning swiftly.

Recommended.

[Gloria · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first sentence of Rainy Day Women is a delight, and it just gets better - especially for those of us who lived through the sixties. Kendall has recreated the culture and values perfectly and historians will find no better example of those pivotal years than this mystery novel. It was a time when young people began to question authority, and women in particular sought equality. The descriptions of dress and language are applied with a light touch, allowing the reader to concentrate on the well-developed characters, any of whom may be a killer.
Starr Austin is an intelligent young wife and mother who appears to accept that her husband’s education and career are more important than hers. However, once she travels from Toronto to Vancouver to assist a friend involved in the murder of a university colleague, she shines in the role of investigator. The crimes are rooted in the evolving consciousness of the times, against the backdrop of Viet Nam and the “Women Libbers”, and I suspect Starr returns to Toronto a slightly-changed young woman. I look forward to her next adventure to see if I’m right!

[James Ziskin · Rating 5 out of 5]

An exciting jaunt back to the days of flower power and Women's Lib, Kay Kendall's RAINY DAY WOMEN explores serious issues that still resonate today, nearly fifty years later. Austin Starr's second mystery (after 2013's DESOLATION ROW) packs danger and lots of heart, and hits all the right notes in depicting the late sixties. Austin is a smart, relentless sleuth with a baby on her hip and a Makarov pistol in her macramé purse. Right on, sister!

James W. Ziskin
Author of the Ellie Stone Mysteries

[Amber Harvey · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was just like stepping back In time to the late 60s. I felt I was living in Montreal again with Austin Starr with her academic husband and then flying to Vancouver, encountering the "Wet Coast." Austin is so real to me, sharing the same exploration of the women's movement, trying to balance loyalty to friends and family responsibilities. But beyond all the comforts of familiarity, the book is a gripping read. I had a hard time putting it down until it was finished. Now I'm looking forward to the third book. Which Dylan song title will embellish the next cover?

[Gary Parkes · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent, fast-paced read. The characters are well-developed and I felt like I was right there alongside Austin, the protagonist, throughout the adventure. There is a broad spectrum of thought-provoking ideas in this book that cause the reader to think and form their own opinions. I don't want to reveal all the issues as it may ruin the story. :) Highly recommend!

[S. Manning · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Rainy Day Women, the author cleverly combines a murder around a women's liberation group in the late 1960s with the choices that the protagonist, Austin, makes in her personal life. This is an intelligent mystery with an engaging main character that brought me back to one of the more interesting periods in American history. I look forward to following Austin's further adventures.

[Warren Hutch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rainy Day Women was much better than the first book in this series. While Desolation Row was good, this new one is great. Very enjoyable. A dead-on account of the late sixties that brings it all back.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rainy Day Women by Kay Kendall


Reading Kay Kendall's RAINY DAY WOMEN put me in a mood to reflect on the long struggle for equality for women, and the slanders and power plays mounted against those who challenge power . . . and still we persist! The future of women, and men, depends on it.
The mystery and adventure would be enough on their own, but it also captured the times and kindled nostalgia for my college activist days. I vividly remember waiting for friends to learn their draft status from the cruel lottery and waiting on the steps of the induction center for a friend who was refusing the draft. “A high price to pay, leaving your country.” “A higher price would be fighting and dying for something you don’t believe in.” I also remember the strength of joining in protest, not idly sitting by, and that the debate was generally about not killing others, since we were at that age of blissfully believing in our own immortality. How many men we lost didn’t hit me until later.
Even “back in the day” there were smart men supporting equality, because women contributing all their talents helps everyone. When my consciousness-raising group went to see STEPFORD WIVES and I returned home furious, my gentle, enlightened husband reminded me that he was not the men in that movie, that a Disney-fied perfect automaton would not be his idea of a worthy partner in life.
I was encouraged a few years ago by my Shakespeare class asking what feminism is, looking it up because “it has to be more than equal rights,” and unanimously voting that they were all feminists. I told them that if we’d known they were our future, we’d have been so encouraged back in the ‘70s.
Men of quality don’t fear women of equality, though the insecure, fearful ones put up an ugly fight to hold on to their notions of superiority. I hope their numbers are decreasing and that their belligerence will cease. (I have requested my HVAC company to never again send the service rep who saw fit to lecture me on woman’s place as subservient to men. Yeah, not in my own home . . . )
There seems to be an opening at the end for a third book . . . hoping so . . .
A few favorite quotes and new-to-me info:
I looked up pebble dash, interesting, and confirmed as a controversial building choice.
I had never heard “Under My Thumb” — and glad of it, though it might have explained some of the unsuitable dates if that was their secret fantasy.
“Voted with their feet” comparative thinking regarding Russian Revolution . . . reminded me of my favorite class at Macalester on “Christian - Marxist Dialogue.”
“Always doing what someone else told me to do exhausted and depleted me. I wanted to make up my own mind.”
Battle cry of the abuser, “See what you made me do.”

[Julie Herman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Raise your consciousness with the tale of murder and mayhem. Kendall does a lovely job showing Austin's emerging willingness to do what women of that day did--solve problems on their own. The 1960s were a time when women not only did what they had to do--they began to push back against the repression of the 1950s. Austin's investigation begins with a phone call from an old friend--who has been falsely accused of murder. Austin and her new baby dash across Canada to help solve the case. Highly enjoyed this vintage mystery.

[Wendy Adair · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Time Machine to the 60s

Rainy Day Women dragged me straight back to 1968 and the music and the reality of the early women's movement. I loved the setting and the mystery. Bravo!

[Kathleen Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rainy Day Women t is a time of women's freedom, a time of Woodstock, Charles Manson, and the Apollo moon landing. It is 1969 an amateur sleuth, Austin Starr, along with her infant son, are on their way to clear her best friends name. Her friend, Larissa is a suspect in the death of a woman's activist leader, she served the tea that was poisoned, at a meeting that all the women were. Austin and her husband David moved to Canada because they didn't believe in the Vietnam War, so David was a draft dodger. Austin had worked with the CIA, in the previous book Desolation Row, so she had some detective skills. Her husband is not real crazy about her gallivanting off to Seatle to help out her friend but he 'allows' her to go. The only way she can go is take their three-month son, Wyatt, along with her. This had to have been a lot harder to do in 1969 then it is now. This is a time where women are still under their husbands thumb, but this is a also a time when all of how a woman is treated is changing, they are now able to pursue an education and work outside of the home. There is a big movement across the country at this time of women's liberation. There are men who do not agree that a woman should have these types of freedom. I was 16 in 1969 and by the time I was 18 women's lib was full blown. I got on the bandwagon; it was exciting. Also, this was a magical time, a lot of changes in the world going on.Austin arrives to help find out who killed Shona and why. She is told by her previous mentor not to investigate, but she does not comply, she tries but is too determined to find out what is going on and when another female college student is found murdered, Austin feels that these two cases are intertwined as Shona had been friends with the second victim. The race is on, and when Larissa is beaten up, things get real for Austin, and it makes her more determined, against her husband's wish.I enjoyed this story; It brought back a lot of memories of a turbulent era. I could just hear Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, long flowing hair and flower power. Watching the news with daily broadcasts of war images when I came home from school. That aside, I also enjoyed the plot, women's lib mixed with a murder mystery, active women who are determined to do what they feel is right. I look forward to Austin's growth as a character in the next installment of this story.- See more at: http://www.celticladysreviews.blogspo...

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think what I liked most about this book wasn't that it was suspenseful, true it was a mystery. It wasn't fast paced, even though the killer seemed to be getting closer and closer to the protagonist, Austin.
I think what I liked best was reliving the moments.

This book was set in the 1970's. There were so many mentions of things that were going on during this time. And the memories that flooded my mind helped to remind me that this was a total different era that it is now. A lot of this book dealt with the women's liberation movement and the pull it had between Austin and her real life. She'd given up her role in the CIA to get married and now she had a baby. She was happy, but had she done it too soon?

Yes, there was a mystery and women were being killed and yes Austin was working on solving the problem, but I think Austin is going to have a tough time of it in the future. That child is going to grow and not just sit in that carrier. Her days of solving murders will be different in the future.

Thanks to Kay for reminding me that I've had this book to read for months and please get up and read it. HA!! I think if you were alive during that era, just the flashbacks alone, I mean we are talking songs, headlines, I mean you really feel you are still living in that era.

[Paul Franco · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another first person amateur PI story, the main difference from most being that it takes place in the late 60s, though it takes a while to realize that. Perhaps the author assumes you read the first in the series; it’s really not obvious until there’s a mention of the first moon landing. It takes place in Vancouver, which is one of my favorite cities in the world, mostly around the University of British Columbia and its chemistry lab, as well as the woman’s lib movement of the time, which is a huge part of the story.
It starts with a complete fakeout where you think the lead character’s trying to escape from an abusive boyfriend, only to find it’s something else completely. It made me laugh, so I forgive the author this joke.
While I enjoyed the setting and most of the banter, the plot—featuring more murders and attacks—and resolution. . . not as much. The author does a decent job of coming up with alternate suspects, but she stacks the deck too much for the reader to conceive it’s anyone but who it turns out to be (I know that’s vague, but I’m trying not to spoiler it).

[Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the first book in this series, Desolation Row, a couple of years ago. I was 19 in 1969 and vividly remember a lot of what went on back then. Although I was never really into Women's Liberation fully--I was kind of how Austin related to it. I was all for it--but my upbringing kept me away from any of the action. I almost made it to Woodstock-oh well-I'm not really into camping out or crowds and from what I heard that was really MUDDY. My Mom had something to do with me not going as well----

This book will keep you intrigued and guessing. Who was killing the women who belonged to the Women's Lib groups? Will Austin be able to figure it out before her husband gets really angry and insists she goes home? I loved all the characters in the book and think you will too!!

If you were around in 1969 and cognizant of what was happening--this may take you down memory lane as well. It was a time of transition, that is for sure!
Rainy Day Women

[Angel Hatfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

**I received an ARC of this story in exchange for an honest review**
Austin's son's name is Wyatt and her husband's name is David. Her best friend Larissa called, saying she was in trouble. She was the prime suspect for a murder. Austin finally got David to agree to go to Larissa and take Wyatt with her. Larissa had been close to Shona, who had been poisoned. Austin had promised she wouldn't get involved in the investigation, but she wasn't the type to sit back and do nothing.
Austin was a stubborn and determined woman, yet she was fairly naive with life and the ugliness of it. Her mom had been determined to protect her. She cared about her family and the people she considered her second family. She was a good woman.
I enjoyed the twists and turns of this story. It had a good plot and good characters. I recommend this book to anyone that likes this genre.

[N.W. Moors · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe I should have read the first book. This one was kind of blah, not particularly a mystery as you could figure out the plot by about one quarter of the way in. The characters were not engaging and I found the heroine just whiney. She complained about everyone else's mood swings but didn't seem to notice her own. I didn't like her constant lying to her husband who was only concerned about her and their child. If she was an adult she would be honest with him - she never told him she had been in training in the CIA and had people after her now? Really?
The story takes place in my era so that was fairly interesting and the cover is great, but it wasn't my cup of tea. I received this as an ARC from the author for an honest opinion.

[J Earl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rainy Day Women is like a stroll through the late 60s (or a flashback but I digress) with an exciting mystery thrown in. This is my introduction to both Kay Kendall and her protagonist Austin Starr, and I will be reading more.

The writing is very good and establishes a wonderful atmosphere which sets the stage for the action. The characters are well developed and Starr is a character it is hard not to like. All together these elements create an appealing foundation. The mystery had twists and turns aplenty and kept you reading.

Definitely recommended for lovers of mysteries and those who might like to walk through their memories of the 60s.

Reviewed from an ARC made available by the publisher via NetGalley.

[Pam Koenig · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wanted to like, but too much didn't make sense. Gave up