Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Oh, boy.  I finished a great thriller last night, "The Burglar".  It was written by Thomas Perry, whose Jane Whitefield books I adore.  She is a woman who helps people disappear.  Battered women, innocent people with people after them.  How she does it is riveting, and you learn a lot about disappearing.  I used to work with battered women, so I know there truly is an underground to aid those whom the law cannot or will not help.  But this new book of his has a new main character, Elle, who is a burglar in the rich enclaves of Los Angeles.  She doesn't hurt people, but one day she is in a person's house to burgle, and she discovers three bodies.  She tries to let it go, but when the police can't seem to see the clues she has discovered, she investigates.  Soon people are after her, and the reader learns a lot about home security, state of the art cameras, and the art world.  I couldn't put it down.  I kept saying to myself, why are you rooting for her?  She's a criminal.  But she was abandoned as a teenager, she's 24 years old, and she only takes what insurance will replace, and has her own code that seems reasonable in the book.  Whatever.  The line gets murky because she is so smart and determined to see justice done.  It's fun.