Joan M. Drury's Silent Words is a thinking person's mystery.

Joan M. Jones, a radical feminist lesbian, has come to honor her mother's dying wish that family secrets long buried be at last exposed. What she discovers about her mother's people makes for provocative reading. From Publishers Weekly. The second in the Tyler Jones mystery series. With her mother's last words still echoing in her ears, Tyler Jones, the San Francisco-based newspaper columnist and amateur sleuth introduced in "The Other Side of Silence," journeys to the family home in northern Minnesota. Drury, former publisher of Spinsters Ink and sponsor of Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women, lives and writes from her home on the north . She is the author of four novels, including the Tyler Jones mystery series. Drury, former publisher of Spinsters Ink and sponsor of Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women, lives and writes from her home on the north shore of Lake Superior. As a publisher, she was awarded the Publisher Service Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. She now owns Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Gwen Danfelt, manager of Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais, has come up with a list of books to put your mind Up. .Krueger’s Cork O’Connor detective mystery series takes place in northern Minnesota. This is No. 2 in the series, which is now at 16 books and counting.

Gwen Danfelt, manager of Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais, has come up with a list of books to put your mind Up North even if you can't be there yourself.

Tyler Jones, the San Francisco-based newspaper columnist and amateur sleuth introduced in "The Other Side of Silence," journeys to the family home in northern Minnesota. Directed by her mother's last request to "find the truth," Tyler has no inkling what she is supposed to uncover in this idyllic haven perched on the edge of Lake Superior. Drury (1996). Silent Words, Spinsters Ink Books. Way, Thinking, Agnostic. When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

Silent Words: A Tyler Jones Mystery. EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780704345225. Brand The Women's Press Ltd.

by. Drury, Joan . 1945-. Cultural Literacy and Humanities, Reading Level-Adult. Duluth : Spinsters Ink.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions.