Gwen Florio
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Public defender Julia Geary's star is rising, and now she's got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man. But Julia's professional and personal challenges are mounting. First, she's assigned an intern whose arrogance is insufferable. Then, her widowed mother-in-law, whose home Julia and her son Calvin share, announces her plans to re-marry, meaning they'll have to find a new place to live. And to top...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
20250506
Language
English
Description
"When retired septuagenarian Alice settled into her home within the planned community of Timeless Pastures in New Jersey, she expected a quiet life full of book clubs, mellow gatherings and affable friends. What she didn't expect was her retirement paradise to be disturbed by pigeons! Alice confronts her next-door neighbour, Babs, for feeding a flock of them each day, thus causing her backyard to look like a Jackson Pollock painting, but not knowing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Trying to start her life over, Nora Best takes a job as a "team leader" at a retreat for troubled teens. All seems perfect but for the recent death of a girl. It's framed as suicide, but as Nora learns more about how the retreat is run, she grows suspicious--and determined to find out the truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Best is enjoying the quiet life . . . finally. She's parked up the Airstream on a quiet stretch of beach and is now a seventh-grade teacher in a small peninsula town in the Pacific Northwest. Her biggest worry is keeping up with her quick-witted bunch of students. No drama. No danger. And most importantly - no one turning up dead. Until they do, that is . . .When a local environmental activist - and dad to one of her most troublesome students...
7) Dakota
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Series
Lola Wicks mysteries volume 2
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a small local newspaper after being downsized from her job in Kabul. Then Judith Calf Looking, a local Blackfeet girl missing for several months, turns up dead in a snowbank with a mysterious brand on her forearm. The sheriff - whose romantic relationship with Lola provides Magpie with its most delicious gossip in years - thinks Judith probably...
8) Montana
Author
Series
Lola Wicks mysteries volume 1
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
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-increasing violence 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...
10) Disgraced
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Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
©2016.
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...
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