Primarily, her detective work, which in itself involves a lot of digging into the history of her city and the stories of her mentor's old cases. She loves solving mysteries, finding the truth, it doesn't have to be about any one thing, but if something presents itself to her she'll chase it down until she has the answers. She was a working class kid in the late 19th-early 20th centuries and didn't really get to, or necessarily want to, seek out more academic intellectual pursuits.

Here on the boat she is now picking up writing slowly, but even that comes down to basically the same thing. She's thinking about recording parts of her home's history via the stories she's lived through herself.