Julia D. Stevens Volgorde van de boeken

Estate Bottled Tears is a modern mystery novel featuring neo-western characters from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and bridges the gap between the America of Eisenhower and the globalized multinational world of the new millennium. It is constructed around a multilayered plot structure with an undercurrent of romance and explores personal angst, individual frailties, and selfish motivations. The novel brings the protagonist, Lanny O'Brian, a one-time Pacific Northwest backwoods neophyte--recently self-reconstructed to function in the one-world-third-way environment of urban California, together with Polly Evenrude, a wealthy wine heiress of the Napa Valley. They need to work in tandem in order to solve a variety of problems--murders, thefts, missing persons, and slanders--leaving them both better prepared to deal with the rapidly changing world in which they find themselves. It features characters of the new world and of the old, some adapting and some refusing, and delineates a changing sense of collective values. It is an extremely fast paced mystery with rapidly changing scenes but leaves a few reflective moments to allow the reader a chance to gain a sense of the novel's direction, a recharge of energy, and an opportunity to locate a personal place of compatibility. Estate Bottled Tears is a story narrated within the context of the mystery in which many Americans now find themselves living.