I.O.U.

Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award. Jenny explores her own family’s unsettling mysterious past beginning with her mother’s death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called “excellent” by Publishers Weekly. . The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series finds the Port Frederick Mass. sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mothers insanity. Cain discovers that her mothers mental collapse many years before coincided with the bankruptcy of the family business. The closing of Cain Clams created considerable unemployment locally and countless enemies for the Cains--one such foe may now be trying to prevent the amateur detective from delving further into her familys past and the towns secrets. As she tracks down public mysteries Cain unearths painful personal issues; an attempt on her life construed as an effort at suicide forces her to deal with the legacy of her mothers madness. Pickard masterfully resolves both plot lines in this affecting provocative novel centering around the mystery at the heart of mother-daughter relationships.