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“An outstanding mystery…a compelling portrait of a quiet little town’s big secrets.” Midwest Book Review
1956. Nestled in the picturesque Texas hill country, Colinas is a charming little town where everyone knows everyone, or so they think.
When the body of wealthy businessman Sonny Guthrie is discovered in an abandoned quarry, suspicion immediately falls on Gilberto Munoz, a resident of the Little Mexico neighborhood. The investigation falls to Sheriff Hutch Joyner, a quiet, principled man shaped by hardship. A survivor of a brutal WW 2 POW camp, and a widower still grieving his loss, Hutch believes in justice tempered with mercy. With Friday, his faithful golden retriever by his side, he begins to pull at the town’s carefully-knotted secrets. But his inquiry has barely begun when Munoz is found floating in the Big Stone River with a knife in his back.
As tempers flare, and accusations and suspicions multiply, Hutch finds solace in his deep friendship with Ruth Harnett, a young war widow who owns the town newspaper and is bringing up her young son alone.
Also caught up in the case are Guthrie’s enigmatic widow Sarita; a nightclub dancer with a secret lover; a beloved football hero who has something to hide; and a retired Texas Ranger whose idea of justice leaves little room for restraint. Hutch’s investigation of a double murder soon becomes something deeper: a reckoning with prejudice, guilt, and buried loyalties, and the cost of silence in a town determined to protect its image.
A Quiet Little Town is a richly-textured mystery, a tender love story, and an intimate portrait of a man and a town suspended between the past and the future. With immersive detail, emotional depth and a cast of heartwarming characters, it’s a story that lingers long after the final page.
“Compelling….Engaging, poignant, and well-crafted. Highly recommended. Five stars.” —Readers Favorite
“An exceptionally vivid, engrossing story, rich in atmospheric detail…A Season in Saigon is a winner.” —Midwest Book Review
When an honest mistake shreds her professional reputation, fashion writer Tallis Reed heads to Saigon intending to salvage her career by reporting the war’s hidden stories. But in a wary city teeming with refugees and orphans, soldiers and spies, truth is elusive and danger is an ever-present shadow.
The last thing she expects is to fall in love with Nick Landry, an American doctor volunteering in a civilian hospital. Ruggedly handsome and intensely private, Nick has come to Saigon for reasons of his own. Their quiet attraction deepens into love but both are bound by past mistakes and obligations.
Alone in Saigon as the brutal jungle war rages on, Tallis embarks on a search for justice, a search that tests everything she believes about honor. About friendship. About love. But she must stay and redeem her past before she can claim her future.
A Season in Saigon is about one idealistic young woman gone to war but it illuminates the true-life experiences of the handful of female journalists whose struggles and triumphs there have been largely forgotten. An immersive, richly-detailed story filled with unforgettable characters, A Season in Saigon adds a new chapter to the story of the American experience in Vietnam.
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