Winner of the High Plains Book Award and Pinckley Prize. Finalist for International Thriller Award, Silver Falchion Award and Shamus Award
By Gwen Florio
Publication Date: Oct. 25, 2013/May 30, 2023
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages: 257
ASIN: B0BZHJGMGR
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Description
Montana by Gwen Florio introduces readers to Lola Wicks, a war correspondent and investigative reporter trying to rebuild her life after the shock and humiliation of being downsized.
Her editor reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. And when she arrives 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’s fate – and is held as a witness. Her best hope in getting out of Montana lies in solving the case herself. But the surefooted journalist who deftly negotiated Afghanistan’s deadly terrain finds herself frighteningly off-balance in this forgotten corner of her own country.
Lola’s lone-wolf style doesn’t work in a place where the harsh landscape and extreme isolation compel people to rely upon each other in ways she finds unsettling. In her awkward attempts at connection, she forms a reluctant alliance with a local reporter, succumbs to the romantic attentions of a wealthy rancher, and fences warily with the state’s first Indian candidate for governor, the subject of her friend’s final stories. Ultimately she comes to truly care about the people she meets in Montana, only to miss the warning signals that her own life is in danger.