Blogs in July 2024

Six Weeks in Reno 18th July 2024

  September 27, 1931. Today my new life begins. After twenty years in a loveless marriage, Evelyn Henderson will do anything to escape her stifling suburban life. She boards a train for Reno, Nevada, a former frontier town that’s...

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The Divorcées 8th November 2023

Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce – except in...

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Girlchild 1st January 1970

Rory Dawn Hendrix lives with her Mother in trailer park near Reno, raised by her determined and flawed mother who is a drinker, and by her grandmother. Rory is a child of neglect yet her resilience shines through. The...

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Mocha, Moonlight and Murder 1st January 1970

Instead of feeding her late-night appetite, a midnight food run nearly gets 28-year-old Katherine O’Brian killed. She’s the only person to see the man who brutally murdered a local woman, and the killer is hell-bent on making sure she...

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