Nora heads home to Chateau in search of a fresh start, but her arrival comes at a time of social unrest that threatens to uncover long-hidden secrets.
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 . . .
The night Nora arrives in Chateau, a white police officer shoots and kills Robert Evans, a young black man. The officer in question is Nora's school sweetheart, Alden Tydings. What really happened that night? Did Alden act in self-defense as he claims?
Robert is the nephew of Bobby Evans, a man whose murder during the race protests of 1967 was never solved. Bobby and his sister, Grace, used to work at Quail House before Nora was born and, as tensions in Chateau rise, Nora begins to uncover secrets within her family home that could upend the lives of everyone in town . . .
Gwen Florio grew up in a farmhouse filled with books and a ban on television. After studying English at the University of Delaware, she began a decades-long career in journalism that has taken her around the country and to more than a dozen countries, including several conflict zones.
Her first novel in the Lola Wicks mystery series, Montana, won the Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction and the High Plains Book Award, and was a finalist for the Shamus Award, an International Thriller Award and a Silver Falchion Award. She has since released four other books in the Lola Wicks series and one standalone novel. Best Laid Plans was the first book in the Nora Best series and her first with Severn House.
www.gwenflorio.net
Title: Best Kept Secrets: 2 (A Nora Best mystery, 2)
Author: Florio, Gwen
ISBN: 9780727890269
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-06-24
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.4451 kg
A hypercontemporary look at long-standing social justice issues * Kirkus Reviews *
Deftly weaving Nora's efforts to reestablish relationships into her realization that she must face unhappy truths about her past and her former friends, Florio, a former journalist, uses storytelling to explore the persistence of racism and the far-reaching damage it inflicts * Booklist *
Baffling circumstances combine with life-changing adventures in this breathtaking page-turner * Kirkus Reviews Starred Review of Best Laid Plans *
The first in a new series, told from the viewpoint of a woman over 50, on her own for the first time, introduces a complex story. Florio's ( Lola Wick series) suspenseful mystery will have readers rooting for amateur sleuth Nora * Library Journal Starred Review of Best Laid Plans *
Engrossing series launch. Fans of strong female leads will look forward to seeing more of plucky Nora * Publishers Weekly on Best Laid Plans *
