The title character is made sheriff of her small town when her boss Cal, the former sheriff, disappears. Sarah Jane has led a complex life, including time in the military, working as a chef, and a disastrous marriage. Told in back-and -forths between Sarah's past and present in a gritty, laconic, 'seen it all' style that's elliptical enough that reading it is a bit like peering at an object through smudged glass. Interesting, but a little hard to follow. And there's far too high a casualty count per number of pages, which violates my "Arundhati Roy Syndrome" rule for fiction. For more discussion of this rule,read here and here.
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