Because Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, was still on vacation, author Dana Stabenow brought her own team to the bookstore for her book release. Stabenow’s new book is The Harvey Girl. Followers of Stabenow’s blog, https://blog.stabenow.com/, may recognize her group of followers, the Danamaniacs. Three of them showed up to support the event. You can order signed copies of The Harvey Girl through the Website. https://tinyurl.com/ysm432yn
Here’s the summary of The Harvey Girl.
From the award-winning author of the Kate Shugak Mysteries, a thrilling new detective series set during America’s wild boom time of the nineteenth century.
WELCOME TO THE GILDED AGE. WHERE NOT EVERYTHING GLITTERS.
1890. The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it.
In the new city of Montaña Roja, Fred Harvey’s growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask.
The assignment falls to Clare Wright, a young Pinkerton agent. Disguised as one of Harvey’s famous hostesses, Clare travels west where she risks being exposed at every step of her investigation. To get answers – and to get out alive – there are only two things she can trust: her instincts, and her derringer.
Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing tender. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first book in the bestselling Kate Shugak series, A Cold Day for Murder, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Enjoy Dana Stabenow’s conversation about The Harvey Girl.