A review by psalmcat
Dakota by Martha Grimes

4.0

Strange book.

Interesting character.

Andi Oliver is walking across the plains when she comes upon a woebegone donkey in a field. She rescues him, continues with him to the next town--Kingdom--and stops for a bit there.

The thing is, she has no memory of anything beyond a year ago. And she's got a bit of a savior complex about animals. She gets work at a corporate pig farm outside Kingdom and makes nothing but trouble for them, eventually hiring an attorney to sue them for multiple Ag. Dept. infractions. This, of course, earns her no friends. Between the corporate guys wanting to get rid of her and some guy who is following her around from Idaho across Montana and into North Dakota, she has every right to be freaked out.

She's close to being completely unbelievable, but her sense of humor and wry awareness of how she must look to everyone else redeems her as well as the book.