Toni Credella, 29 years old, dyslexic, acquitted murderer of her spouse, realizes that her home decorating skills are just not making financial ends meet. So what career does she choose?

Yes, that's right; she delves into Private Detective training - in action - and actually is paid for it. Assisted by a faithful friend, Gus O'Dell; her former attorney, Randall Haworth; and her new employer, Angus Maloney, Toni seeks the guilty party or parties responsible for two grisly, seemingly unrelated murders.

Psychiatry and Psychology have come far, but what experimentation has occurred to reach those beneficial ends? Who was involved? What were the experiences of those who participated? What were the uncharted consequences beyond the time frame of those experiments? One wants to deny the proposed scenes. They couldn't be true, could they?

Who loves mysteries? It's usually people who love to be carried so much into a story that they forget the real world or people who secretly would love to play detective with the narrator. Titchener's characters are typical, yet they alternately generate irritation and intrigue with their unusual reactions. So real life characteristics interplay with the reader's predictions, stalemates, and finally amazing recognition of a skilled, intelligent, funny, and sympathetic heroine who doggedly follows her clues to the very end.

Congratulations, Louise Titchener! Keep writing, please!