Join us for an evening with author Julie Weston, who will read from and talk about her recently released book, Moonscape.
Once again, Nellie Burns and Moonshine leap into trouble–this time in Craters of the Moon in southwest Idaho. Nellie accompanies Sheriff Asteguigoiri to the lava fields as his photographer. Three people are missing there, doing “God’s work,” according to Mayor Tom of a nearby town. Marked on maps as “unexplored” and “unknown,” the miles of lava resist easy navigation and Nell’s photography. Rosy Kipling, the one-eyed miner and Nell’s friend, is recruited with Mayor Tom and Moonshine to assist in the search amidst concerns about a religious cult and money related to the missing. Physical obstacles as well as secrets and lies and consuming greed endanger all. And alone, Nell faces an attempt on her sanity and her life in this remote and almost inaccessible natural phenomenon.
Julie Weston grew up in Idaho and practiced law for many years in Seattle. Her memoir of place, The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) received honorable mention in the 2009 Idaho Book of the Year Award. Her debut fiction, Moonshadows, was a finalist in the May Sarton Literary Award. Basque Moon (Five Star Publishing), the second in her Nellie Burns and Moonshine mysteries, won the 2017 WILLA Literary Award in Historical Fiction. Weston and her husband, Gerry Morrison, live in Hailey, Idaho, where they ski, write, photograph and enjoy the outdoors. Visit www.julieweston.com for more information.
