closed in silence Joan m Drury Joan Drury is follow up to her Edgar award finalists silent words offers for their proof she is one of the best. this atmospheric absorbing passionately feminist novel will reward you with fine characterization ( a trademark (, a storm tossed setting, and a most mysterious mystery Catherine Forrest author of Lambert award-winning Kate delafield mystery series once again Joan Drury created an award-winning Taylor Jones feminist mystery series stretches the traditional mystery genre with another novel that breaks silence Suzanne allows women's voices to be heard. when Tyler is invited to join her five colleague College Palace for reunion on an isolated island in Puget Sounds, she jumps at the chance to reminisce about those heady days at the University of Minnesota at the height of the 1970 feminist movement, when anything seemed possible to six young women Teddy Grace Julie Mary Sharon Rachel and Tyler herself. the weekend however proves to be more than simply a no nostalgic occasion. when a storm cuts through cuts the six off from the rest of the world Tyler once again discovers a body. in a pursuit of a murderer that could be one of them, the six women share their stories of struggle, triumph, accomplishment, and pain thus the opening of the circle that keeps women mute separated from one another, close in silence.