puppy dilworth feisty star or murder at Red rook ranch returns in another baffling case. it is hot June and Southern Texas in a town split over the damning of her mouth so River tension between Pearl River and the Pearl Lake supporters is real to ready to Christine jessup is found dead drowned in the river she was trying to save. and her 65-year-old private investigator poppy dilworth Keen cantankerous and with an appreciative I for the truck of women the woman women of hallelujah Ben camp as possibly to investigate and when the local sheriff says accident Poppy's instinct says murder. assisted by lover and partner Bill stoner poppy video camera at the ready indulges in her great love of fishing for clothes for answers and even when you can for fish in the river and she's fishing as well for a ruthless killer realizing almost too late she herself has become prey. Wow even the write-up is fun to read