Vera van Alst has been invited to lunch at Summerlea, a grand summer \"getaway home\" of the Kauffman family. This property is what\"s left of the holdings of the grand old family of robber barons (steel money meets railway money meets shipping money)....

By day, Mackenzie \\\"Mack\\\" Dalton is the proprietress of a popular Milwaukee watering hole. But after last call, she uses her unique cocktail of extra perceptive senses to help solve some of the city\"s most grisly homicides....

What does the \\\"tradition of marriage\\\" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance, or social obligation? Eternal bliss, or cult of domesticity?...