The main character, Rae Newborn, is a middle-aged woman who is feeling the aches and pains of a life with too many blows in it. The story opens as her daughter and granddaughter are dropping her off on Folly, an island off the coast of Washington where she is determined to rebuild a home and her life in near-complete isolation. We quickly learn that she suffers from panic attacks and has attempted suicide many times in her life. Even now she carries with her a revolver as her answer to failure



King has won the Edgar and Creasey awards (forA Grave Talent), the Nero (A Monstrous Regiment of Women), the Macavity (for Folly), and the Lambda for The Art of Detection; her nominations include the Agatha, the Orange, the Barry, and two more Edgars. She received an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, was Guest of Honor for the 2001 Left Coast Crime, was named 2006 Artist of the Year in Santa Cruz County, and was the Guest of Honor at the 2010 BoucherCon and the 2013 Malice Domestic.

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