However, fiding out who was behind the abduction turns out to be much more difficult. If ReedÆs enemies from his days in the DA office are ruled out, the list still remains very long . Could it have the anti-feminist group that has threatened Kate before? Or perhaps, someone from the university where Kate works. With the help of Bancroft the Saint Bernard, Kate plans to learn who could have destroyed her feeling of invincibility by kidnapping Reed.

As expected from the highly intellectual word processor of Amanda Cross, the twelfth Kate Fensler novel is very sophisticated, very pro feminist, and very well written. The humbling of Kate adds much humanization to what seemingly has been a superwoman. The support cast, several who have been in previous novels in the series, turns the scholarly, controversial, yet puzzling story line into a first rate reading experience that will be loved by everyone except the most macho pigs and sows.