This is the second appearance on this page by my fellow SleuthSayer, Eve Fisher. All the stories in this book deal with sexual violence/harrassment against women.
As usual for Fisher, the story is set in rural South Dakota. It is 1990 and the Lutheran Church in Laskin has just acquired its first female pastor. Darla Koenig actually grew up in Laskin but has just moved back, giving her a unique insider/outsider perspective. She is trying to settle in with her young daughter, finding her place in the delicate social web.
Her daughter loves the dance classes and there lies the rub, because the girls' dressing room shares an interior window with a respected local attorney. And somehow the paint covering that window keeps getting scraped away...
Darla knows that raising a stink about it will make her enemies she can't afford. Can she find another way to deal with it?
You bet.
A fun story.
Thank you, Rob! I appreciate it.
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