This is a revolting book. The author is obviously a feminist, and she has written a book intended to degrade men. She also appears to have some sort of social agenda. She wants to inspire woman to change their behavior and to adopt masculine personalities and for men to be regarded as feminine. So her story consist of woman characters who are strong, aggressive, and decisive leaders. And her male characters are relatively weak, sensitive, vulnerable, and indecisive. In addition, her male characters are the villains, and the women characters are the heroes.
The story is about a woman judge, in her thirties, who is staying at her cousins vacation cottage in a North Carolina coastal fishing community. In the community, there is conflict between the local people, who traditionally support themselves with fishing, and newcomers who are wealthier and support tourism and environmental regulation.
The judge discovers the murdered body of one of the local residents who got along with both the locals and the newcomers. As the judge goes about her business she learns more about the community residents and motives they may have had to commit the murder.
The suspects include an ambitious woman real estate agent, a feisty woman fish processing plant owner, a strong woman fish farmer, and a sharp woman lawyer.
There are also male suspects. One is a divorce lawyer the judge use to live with in New York. He use to be an idealist, but he has now sold out and is just interested in making money. Another is a fellow male judge, who turns out to be crooked. And then there is her ignorant, abusive boat building neighbor who turns out to be the murderer.
The woman characters are all successful and turn out to be good. The male characters are all pathetic.
This book is rubbish and suitable for burning.
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