Montana, Gwen Florio
Montana, Gwen Florio
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Montana

Author: Gwen Florio

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2013


Synopsis

Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is pissed off. Her editor, downsizing her from her Kabul posting, reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. Meanwhile, arriving in Montana for some R&R at a friends cabin, she is surprised to find her friend nowhere in sight. Anger turns to terror when Lola discovers her friend shot dead. She cant get out of Montana fast enough but finds that she cant leave, as shes being held as a potential witness, thwarting her plan to return to Afghanistan on her own and have her editors change their minds. Her best hope now lies in solving the case herself. But this sure-footed journalist who deftly negotiated Afghanistans deadly terrain finds herself frighteningly off balance in this forgotten corner of her own country, plagued by tensions between the locals and citizens of the nearby Blackfeet Nation. Lolas lone-wolf style doesnt 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 states first Indian candidate for governor, the subject of her friends 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. While unraveling her friends terrible fate, Lola joins many Americans in learning the hard lessons of a fraught economythat circumstances change in a flash, that formerly overlooked places and people can hold deep value, and that human bonds matter more than fleeting career success.

About Gwen Florio

Gwen Florio is the author of Silent Hearts. She grew up in a 250-year-old brick farmhouse on a wildlife refuge in Delaware and now lives in Montana. Currently the city editor for the Missoulian, Gwen has reported on the Columbine High School shooting and from conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. Montana, her first novel in the Lola Wicks detective series, won the High Plains Book Award and the Pinckley Prize for debut crime fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by "Avonna on March 11, 2017

I did a Feature Blog review of Books #1 - #3 on my website [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 08, 2013

Lola Wicks is tough. She’s been a foreign reporter in Afghanistan and she has grown used to working in a strange country “among the casually over-armed.” Suddenly the newspaper closes down its foreign bureaus and Wicks is on an airplane headed home. The return to her Baltimore newsroom doesn’t go to......more

Goodreads review by Skip on May 25, 2015

Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is called home, victim to cost savings cuts at her newspaper. While determined to return to the war zone by any means necessary, she decides to first visit her only friend, Mary Alice, who she hasn’t seen in five years when their career paths diverged. Lola arrives a......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on September 06, 2013

Montana’s surely as far as you can get from the killing hills of Afghanistan. No interpreters needed for an American reporter here. No threats around every corner. No sudden death. That’s what war correspondent Lola Wicks thinks anyway as she returns from Kabul and plans a brief, rebellious visit wit......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on July 02, 2017

The first in the Lola Wicks series by Gwen Florio really gave me a sense of what it feels like to return from a third world country and try to integrate into First World culture again. Ms. Florio's prose provided me with a sense of small town life in Magpie, Montana. Searching for the clues and the......more