Many elements come together to make a fascinating story.
The law, the police, Japanese art objects, as well as the Jewish New Year, all play their part in the dangerous and puzzling events that surround the heroine Cass Jameson, a lawyer who comes close to losing her right to practise at law, as well as her life. This critic read the story with avid interest as the plot wheels and turns on itself. Cass inherits several enemies each of whom threatens to destroy her and one of whom almost does so. Even her friends are doubtful company. Brooklyn, and an area beyond the Brooklyn Bridge called Dumbo, of old warehouses turned into studios, and perhaps most fascinating of all, a district dominated by an Orthodox Jewish community.