Alaskan attorney and mystery author Keenan Powell discusses the development of women characters in mysteries and presents her second Maeve Artemis Malloy mystery, Hemlock Needle. From Miss Marpel to Vera Stanhope, from the unveiled to the convicted, women in mysteries are examined. And, how Keenan Powell’s Maeve Artemis Malloy is a 21-Century investigator and sleuth analyzed. Hemlock Needle: When Yupik chief financial officer and single mother, Esther Fancyboy’s body turns up in a snow berm in Anchorage, her friend Maeve Mallory tries to investigate. Then, right in front of her, a witness is shot dead. In Hemlock Needle, it is a race against time for Maeve Mallory to save Esther’s 7-year-old son, her own career and perhaps even her life. Deadly Solution: Less than a year after drinking sidelined her career as a public defender in Anchorage, Alaska, Maeve Malloy is asked to defend an Aleut Indian accused of beating another homeless man to death. With no witnesses to the crime and a client who claims to have no knowledge of the night of the murder due to a blackout, the case is stacked against them.