Gwen Florio Books in Order

Reassigned foreign correspondent Lola Wicks visits a friend in Montana and discovers she has been murdered. Required to remain nearby, Lola investigates the death amid tensions between the local community and the neighboring Blackfeet Nation.

Lola Wicks questions the apparent freezing death of a missing Blackfeet woman and discovers connections to North Dakota's oil fields. Reports of other disappearances send her into a boomtown where exploitation and corrupt policing obstruct her search.

A Yellowstone vacation draws Lola Wicks into troubling incidents involving soldiers recently returned from Afghanistan. Suspecting a connection to their overseas experiences, she pursues the story while trying to protect herself and her young daughter from danger.

Visiting her husband's relatives on Arizona's Navajo Reservation, Lola Wicks encounters an escalating dispute over a new coal mine. Bombings draw her into investigating the controversy, and suspicions about her in-laws threaten both her marriage and safety.

American aid worker Liv Stoellner and interpreter Farida Basra form a friendship in Kabul after the Taliban's fall in 2001. Their work and marriages expose different hopes, loyalties, and pressures as renewed violence tests the bond between them.

Struggling with grief and the responsibilities of motherhood, Lola Wicks accepts an assignment about overseas adoption in Salt Lake City. Her subject's arrest for murder redirects the reporting job into an investigation she believes may reveal a wrongful accusation.

Nora Best leaves her unfaithful husband and heads across the country alone with an Airstream trailer. At a Wyoming campground, a manager's disappearance and incriminating evidence turn her attempt at a fresh start into a murder investigation.

Returning to her Maryland hometown, Nora Best witnesses a fatal police shooting involving her former sweetheart. The victim's family history connects the case to an unsolved civil-rights-era murder and secrets reaching into Nora's own family home.

Public defender Julia Geary takes the case of an Iraqi refugee teenager accused of assault in a hostile small town. Defending him exposes her family to threats while evidence points toward influential residents determined to conceal the truth.

Nora Best takes a job at a Montana program for troubled teenage girls, hoping to rebuild her life. Questions about a girl's death and further alarming discoveries force her to investigate an institution reluctant to take her concerns seriously.

Public defender Julia Geary suspects links between killings of homeless people and the death of a reform-minded legislator. Removed from her client's murder case, she investigates with community help while anonymous threats warn her to stop.

Nora Best hopes teaching in a coastal town will bring peace, until an environmental activist is murdered. A disputed tsunami tower draws her into local loyalties and secrets as approaching storms threaten the vulnerable community.

Accused after a quarrelsome neighbor dies, Alice Sanders flees her New Jersey retirement community with three friends. Their escape becomes a dangerous adventure as they try to clear her name while protecting secrets from her past.