When Aunt Pettitoes, an old sow, can no longer cope with her eight trouble-making children, they must leave home, with the exception of a well-behaved sow named Spot.
Gillian Adams abandons her academic career and a sojourn in London with her C.I.D. lover to return to her childhood home up the Hudson to care for her elderly mother, but her serenity is soon turned upside down by the murder of a student
in this compelling debut novel, Capponi introduces Private Investigator Dana Leoni, who, surrounded by the marginalized and the mad, is devastated when one of her housemates turns up dead.