Best Kept Secrets

Nora Best returns to her hometown of Chateau in search of a new start but finds only trouble. A white police officer has shoot and killed a young Black man - the nephew of Bobby Evans, another Black man shot and killed in the sixties. Was it self-defense as claimed? Is the family connection a coincidence? What secrets are hidden in Chateau?

Gwen Florio grew up in a farmhouse filled with books and a ban on television. After studying English at the University of Delaware, she began a thirty-plus year career in journalism that has taken her around the country and to more than a dozen countries, including several conflict zones. Her first novel in the Lola Wick mystery series, Montana, won the Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction and the High Plains Book Award, and was a finalist for the Shamus Award, an International Thriller Award and a Silver Falchion Award. She has since released four other books in the Lola Wick series and one standalone novel. Best Laid Plans is her first novel with Severn House. www.gwenflorio.net