The Grrrl of Limberlost — Annie Pearson

They say you can't go home again -- not when chaos reigns. A murder in a Seattle coffee house. A murder on a decaying boat dock. Samsara Byron, the post-punk security expert, insists this has nothing to do with her. She's busy fending off an attack on the world's cyber infrastructure -- if only she could get a cell signal. Sam's a rock star in the international security community: speaking at Black Hat conferences; investigating conspiracies with the FBI and NSA. But Sam's family called her home to exurban Limberlost: her hippie father is accidentally embroiled with gangsters. The boy next door is hiding from the men who killed his partner. And the local weather guru says the Puget Sound Conversion Zone will see record snow. Seattle is paralyzed when it snows. This soft-boiled thriller longs for romance, if anyone can find time. The story does contain inexplicit sex scenes and the language you'd expect from gangsters, porn farmers, and retro Riot Grrrls.