Rainy Day Women is about Austin Starr. She received a call from her friend Larissa that one of her coworkers and friends was killed and she is the prime suspect. Larissa swears she is innocent and asks Austin to fly out to Vancouver to help her solve the murder.
Since Austin’s husband won’t be able to stay home and watch their baby, she brings Wyatt along. This added an interesting element because you were wondering how much danger she would get into and how much danger her baby might be put in and how that might effect her working on solving this case.
The book is set in the 60s, around Woodstock. This is the second book in a series. I didn’t read the first one and while I maybe would have liked a bit more back story, but I think that it worked fine as a standalone.
I also, of course, love mystery books with strong female leads! It is a bit rare for this era and you can see the men who work in the chemistry lab where Larissa and her (now dead) friend Shona worked looked down on them because they were women. (Which is actually something that sadly still happens today!)
I enjoyed this book and would like to read more of Austin’s adventures!
I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review. I was not otherwise compensated.
About the Book
Rainy Day Women is set in 1969 right after the Manson murders and during Woodstock. Intrepid amateur sleuth Austin Starr headlines this historic mystery series. In her second case, with her infant in tow, she flies across the continent to support a friend suspected of murdering women’s liberation activists in Seattle and Vancouver. Then her former CIA trainer warns that an old enemy has contracted a hit on her. How much should Austin risk when tracking the killer puts her and her baby’s life in danger?