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(0)Gwen Florio
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Series
Nora Best mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Best is the envy of her friends. She's just turned fifty and has traded in her home with The Perfect-Ass Husband for an Airstream trailer and an adventure of a lifetime across the US. But during their leaving party, Nora finds her husband in a compromising position with a friend. Storming out of the party she jumps into her truck with no idea how to tow the Airstream or where she's going. Nora ends up in a campground in the mountains of Wyoming,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan & about two women--an American aid worker and her local interpreter--who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasingviolence that surrounds them in Kabul. In 2001, Kabul is suddenly a place of possibility as people fling off years of repressive Taliban rule. This hopeful chaos brings together American aid worker...
3) Montana
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is pissed. Downsized from her Kabul posting, her editor reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. Arriving in Montana for some R&R at a friend's cabin, her friend is nowhere in sight. Anger turns to terror when Lola discovers her friend shot dead. She can't get out of Montana fast enough, but finds that she can't as she's held as a potential witness, thwarting her plan to return...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When she finally gets a breakout case involving a teenage Iraqi refugee, public defender Julia Geary throws herself into the case until she starts receiving vicious threats against her family and her client is left in a coma, pitting her against the town's most powerful forces.
Public defender Julia Geary longs for a breakout case. Tt arrives when members of the high school soccer team report seeing a teammate-- Iraqi refugee Sami Mohammed-- assaulting...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Amid several personal and professional crises, public defender Julia Geary is removed from her first murder case defending a local denizen in the killing of a homeless man, but with rising suspicion that this murder and another may be linked to the deathof a state legislator, Julia launches her own investigation, resulting in anonymous threats against her.
Author
Series
Nora Best mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Best is done running. She's heading to her hometown of Chateau, to the grand Quail House, to stay with her mother and claim the great American privilege of starting over. The night Nora arrives in Chateau, a white police officer shoots and kills Robert Evans, a young black man. The officer in question is Nora's school sweetheart, Alden Tydings. What really happened that night? Did Alden act in self-defense as he claims? As tensions in Chateau...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A "flawed, complex, compelling heroine faces challenges that are both gut-wrenchingly difficult and all too common today . . . Far above the crowd." -Kirkus Reviews
Ravaged by loss and suffering under the weight of addiction, journalist Lola Wicks's life takes a bad turn after a family tragedy. The only reason she agrees to travel to Salt Lake City to write a human interest story on overseas adoptions is to prove that she is still managing her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Main edition.
Language
English
Description
Nora Best is enjoying the quiet life. Now a seventh-grade teacher in a small peninsula town in the Pacific Northwest. No drama. No danger. And most importantly - no one turning up dead. Until they do, that it is! Local environmental activist Ward Austin is found murdered and Nora is once again thrown into a complicated web of secrets and lies.
9) Disgraced
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks heads to Wyoming for a Yellowstone vacation, she comes across a story that hits close to her past. One Wyoming soldier returning from Afghanistan commits suicide, two others spark a near-fatal brawl, and a woman is terrorized. Lola, accompanied by her young daughter, senses a story about whatever happened on the far side of the world that these troops have brought so disastrously home. But she soon realizes...
10) Reservations
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Lola Wicks would much rather pursue a story than spend time with people she barely knows. So when an eco-terrorist bombing escalates the controversy surrounding a new coal mine on Arizona's Navajo Reservation, she's almost relieved to have the distraction from meeting her in-laws. But as the violence gets worse and Lola digs deeper, she can't escape the feeling that her husband's family is somehow involved, a suspicion that jeopardizes...
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