She is heckled by Curtis Miller, a mean man who abuses his wife, Tansy.
Curtis has “broken her arms at least twice, fractured her eye socket, bitten off part of her ear, and broken her fingers.” Everyone in town knows this but Tansy never presses charges. In fact, she defends him, vociferously, in public.
Then Miller is murdered. Tansy didn’t do it but maybe the feminist /activist /theorist did.
Dr. Diakos hires Sarah Booth to find the killer and thus clear her.
We soon learn it’s not that simple.
While Diakos was teaching in Oxford, a professor well known for not only sleeping with his students, but actually beating them up, is murdered.