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    Disgraced

    By Gwen Florio

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    Journalist Lola Wicks discovers a story she can't resist...but it could be her last

    When former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks heads to Wyoming for a Yellowstone vacation, she comes across a story that hits close to her past. One Wyoming soldier returning from Afghanistan commits suicide, two others spark a near-fatal brawl, and a woman is terrorized. Lola, accompanied by her young daughter, senses a story about whatever happened on the far side of the world that these troops have so disastrously brought home. But she soon realizes that getting the story must take second place to getting herself—and her little girl—out of Wyoming alive.

    Praise:

    "A gutsy series."—The New York Times

    "A gut-wrenching mystery/thriller that explores prejudice and the incredible stress on soldiers in a seemingly unending war with no clear goals."—Kirkus Reviews

    "A hallmark of the Lola Wicks series is Florio's seamless weaving of Native American communities into the narrative. The culture of the Blackfeet in Montana and North Dakota, the Shoshone in Wyoming, both on and off the reservation, come poignantly alive in characters."—Montana Standard

    "It is the issues and ideas that [Florio] explores that got me invested in this novel . . . an entertaining read."—Missoulian

    "A story that is gratifyingly real."—Missoula Independent

    "Even as Disgraced pinpoints our political reality it never sacrifices its suspense."—Bozeman Daily Chronicle

    "Lola Wicks is back and better than ever."—Montana Quarterly

    "With the chops of a world-class journalist and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Rocky Mountain West, Gwen Florio weaves a compelling tapestry that combines family saga, social consciousness and human frailty, making Disgraced difficult to put down."—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix dramaLongmire

    "Gwen Florio achieves what few others can in the field of crime fiction. She creates characters with real depth and places them in a story that is so hard-hitting and believable, it's easy to imagine it being in tomorrow's headlines."—J.J. Hensley, award-winning author of Resolve and Measure Twice

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9780738748801
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    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.

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    • 4/5
      This is the third installment in Florio's Lola Wicks mystery series. Lola is a small town Montana journalist who previously had been a reporter in Afghanistan.Six new high school graduates from a small Wyoming town and the nearby Indian reservation band together and sign up for the military. Four white men, a woman, and an Indian. They take their prejudices and life experiences with them.One dies in Afghanistan. A second kills himself after stepping off the plane in what is supposed to be a triumphant homecoming. The remaining four are all obviously troubled.Lola has been sent by a friend to interrupt her vacation with her daughter and drive the returning woman soldier home. Clearly something is very wrong.While all of her mysteries have embraced aspects of social justice, I found this one much darker than her previous entries: a military patrol unit in Afghanistan took very wrong turn; a woman soldier enduring the worst kind of sexual harassment, and, as usual in Ms Florio's books, racism against Indians. But there is humor, too: Jemalina the hen who may be aspiring to become a house dog, and Lola's sad attempts at cooking stand out. These things definitely lighten the load of what could otherwise be a very bleak story.4 stars. Not quite what I was expecting, but I was certainly drawn right in and couldn't put it down. This one could work as a stand alone since there is a six year gap between this and the last novel.I can't wait to read the 4th one; the 5th will be out soon, too.