It is inevitable that such a vital family as the Breslinskys would not have faded away after a single encounter. Here they all are. Time has passed, Claire has married her cop, Johnny Benedetto, they've produced a son. As Foxglove opens, they are excitedly moving into a new house, just a few steps away from parents Mary and Stan, still "eleven miles and ten thousand light-years from Manhattan."And a lovely surprise: just across the street is Claire's old school friend Theresa - "Tree" - with a husband and little girl of her own. But it's a strangely fearful Tree, with only glimpses of the exuberant and often lawless girl Claire remembers. And before she can get all her dishes on the shelf, Mary calls to say that Tree is dead.Claire, always prescient, has a feeling that Tree's death is not a natural one, that somehow a whiff of evil trails her handsome widowed husband. She determines to learn the truth behind her friend's life and death - a determination with some unexpected and frightening results.To the cast of characters that lived so vibrantly in Kelly's first book - sisters Zinnie and Carmela, the somewhat mysterious Stefan, young Michaelaen - Kelly adds others who cannot fail to absorb the reader, including a tiny Indian guru out of Claire's ten-year wandering. Suspenseful, humorous, and ultimately surprising, Foxglove more than lives up to the promise of the author's preceding work. Read Less