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John Denson is a private detective living in Portland. His partner is Willie Sees the Night, who has shamanistic beliefs. On his way home, Denson is caught in a downpour of fish. This event was the result of a tornado, which most likely gathered up the fish in a waterspout. As he is standing in this downpour, Denson notices a woman sitting in her car. Once he approaches, he realizes that she had been shot and is dying. She tries to tell him something but her wounds make it incoherent. The dead woman is Sharon Toogood, the daughter of the local weatherman. She had one of Denson’s business cards in her purse, but no one knows why she wanted to see him. The police believe that Sharon was murdered by her sister Mariah. They were seen having a very loud, very public fight shortly before Sharon’s death. Mariah will also inherit Sharon’s half of the fortune their mother left them. The combination of these two motives is enough to convince the police of her guilt. Denson does not believe this hypotheses and begins to investigate the business the sisters shared. What Denson finds is unexpected and possibly deadly. Denson, with his partner, must expose the murderer before more innocent people are killed. THE WEATHERMAN’S DAUGHTERS focuses on the metaphysical nature of the world rather than the mundane. The spirituality/ philosophy/ shamanistic belief was a little overwhelming at times. Although Denson does not seem to truly believe in any of it, the usage of it did occasionally mask the mystery. His facts and information about shamanism and different philosophies are accurate albeit somewhat jumbled. Some of the ideas fundamental to THE WEATHERMAN’S DAUGHTERS were intriguing. What happens when a health food store, something generally connected with New Age beliefs and environmentalism, is also responsible for poaching and destroying part of the natural habitat? Not only is this idea important to the plot, it also plays a role in everyday life. For example, shark cartilage is used in many homeopathic drugs yet the methods used to obtain it are less than humane. This book questions the balance and demands placed on nature by supposed environmentalists and non-environmentalists. THE WEATHERMAN’S DAUGHTERS is the 11th book in the John Denson series.
Reviewed by Sarah Dudley, August 2003
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