

Montana
Author: Gwen Florio
Narrator: Caroline Shaffer
Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/25/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Gwen Florio
Narrator: Caroline Shaffer
Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/25/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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.
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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
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
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
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