Gwen Florio

Public defender Julia Geary’s star is rising, and now she’s got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man....

Nora Best is done running. She’s heading to her hometown of Chateau, to the grand Quail House, to stay with her mother and claim the great American privilege of starting over. But she might find it is hard to start over when the past is catching up....

In the first of a new mystery series, we meet Nora Best as she flees her old life, cheating husband and all, and takes to the road with an Airstream trailer....

Public defender Julia Geary moves through life in simmering resentment - at her husband, a soldier killed in Iraq, leaving her a single mother; at her low-paying job; and at her overbearing mother-in-law, whose home she shares....

Downsized from her Kabul posting, foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is livid. Reassigned to Montana, she arrives for some R&R at a friend's cabin and her friend is nowhere in sight....

For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan​ about two women - an American aid worker and her local interpreter - who form an unexpected friendship despite their different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence around them....

Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a small local newspaper after being downsized from her job in Kabul....