Gwen Florio. Permanent, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57962-336-4
Journalist Florio’s outstanding first novel introduces foreign correspondent Lola Wicks. When Lola’s newspaper pulls her out of Afghanistan and assigns her to irrelevant suburbia, she plans to sneak back to Kabul, but first she decides to visit Mary
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Gwen Florio. Permanent, $28 (264p) ISBN 978-1-57962-362-3
Florio’s disappointing second foray into northern wide open spaces (after 2013’s Montana) takes downsized newspaper foreign correspondent Lola Wicks from her Magpie, Mont., reporting job, along with her roommate, Indian sheriff Charlie Laurendeau,...
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Gwen Florio. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5053-8
In Florio’s engrossing fifth mystery featuring Magpie, Mont., reporter Lola Wicks (after 2017’s Reservations), Lola, who’s taken to drugs since her husband Charlie’s death in a terrorist bomb explosion, reluctantly agrees to do a human interest...
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Gwen Florio. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63910-068-2
Florio’s solid sequel to 2021’s The Truth of It All finds public defender Julia Geary, who works in the small community of Duck Creek in an unspecified state, dealing with a good deal of personal and professional stress. For starters, her lover, Dom
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Gwen Florio. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9024-5
Writer Nora Best, the heroine of this engrossing series launch from Florio (the Lola Wicks mysteries), and her husband, Joe Crane, have sold their house in Denver, purchased an Airstream travel trailer (which Nora nicknamed Electra), and planned an...
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Gwen Florio. Severn, $29 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5072-0
Florio’s poignant third Nora Best mystery (after 2021’s Best Kept Secrets) finds Nora en route to Montana’s Serendipity Ranch, a therapy camp for troubled young women, where she’s taken a housemother job. On arrival, she learns that a student, Irene
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Gwen Florio. Severn House, $31.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5078-2
Florio’s enthralling fourth whodunit featuring Nora Best (after 2022’s Best Practices) finds the amateur sleuth, who has lived out of an Airstream trailer for years, hoping that she’s found a place to settle down in a small community on a peninsula...
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