By Gwen Florio
Publication Date: March 8, 2016/May 30, 2023
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages: 293
ASIN: B0BZHKVGNG
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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 that getting the story must take second place to getting herself—and her little girl—out of Wyoming alive.
Book reviews
A gusty series. New York Times
A gut-wrenching mystery/thriller that explores prejudice and the incredible stress on soldiers in a seemingly unending war with no clear goals. – Kirkus Reviews
Endorsements
With the chops of a world-class journalist and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Rocky Mountain West, Gwen Florio weaves a compelling tapestry that combines family saga, social consciousness and human frailty, making Disgraced difficult to put down. Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries, the basis for the Netflix drama Longmire
“Gwen Florio achieves what few others can in the field of crime fiction. She creates characters with real depth and places them in a story that is so hard-hitting and believable, it’s easy to imagine it being in tomorrow’s headlines.”
—J.J. Hensley, award-winning author of Resolve and Measure Twice
“Soldiers never really leave the war on the battlefield. Gwen Florio’s new novel, ‘Disgraced,’ shows just what happens when the trauma of combat comes home to a small Wyoming town. What happens in Afghanistan doesn’t stay in Afghanistan, as reporter Lola Wicks–an outsider to Thirty, Wyoming–quickly learns when she investigates some soldiers’ troubled homecoming. Danger lurks on thee pages–and it doesn’t always come from those we think are the enemy.”–David Abrams, author of Fobbit, a New York Times Notable Book