Simon, Morgan, and Julia try to find the missing links between a diver’s suit that is dredged from the water, a dark family secret, and confederate gold.Ī forest ranger finds a woman’s skeleton in a 1953 pick-up truck below the Blue Ridge Parkway, while back in Raleigh her convicted murderer wants Professor Simon Shaw to prove his innocence.
Simon is expecting to spend Thanksgiving vacation working and preparing for the finals week that’s ahead, but is talked into solving another mystery of the past. Simon Shaw travels to Pearlie Beach, North Carolina to spend Thanksgiving vacation with his friends, David Morgan, an archeologist, Marcus and Marianne Clegg and their three younger children, and his former crush Julia McGloughlin, a police attorney. “Shaber charms us with her personable prof and her warm, vibrant portrait of small-town Southern life.” Could she be the long-missing heiress Anne Bloodworth and can Professor Shaw sort things out and give his students their money’s worth?
While searching for artifacts in the aptly named Bloodworth House, Professor Simon Shaw - young, gifted and Pulitzered–comes upon a less-than-colonial corpse. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Award With a historian’s eye for the telling detail, she captures the essence of Washington in 1942 with its paranoia, its secrecy, and its potential to let women reinvent themselves at a volatile time. “Louise’s War is Sarah Shaber’s best novel yet. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone… When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch–a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about–Louise realizes she may be able to help Rachel escape from Vichy France. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. Website: Facebook: Books by Sarah Shaber: Louise’s Warīuy on-line at Amazon and Barnes and Noble Shaber’s household is managed by a miniature schnauzer. Her daughter, Katie, and son, Sam, are all grown up. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband Steve, an attorney. Her first career was in advertising and public relations.
The second, LOUISE’S GAMBLE, will follow soon. The first book in her new historical mystery series is LOUISE’S WAR, published by Severn House in August 2011. Shaber is the award-winning author of the Professor Simon Shaw murder mysteries and editor of Tar Heel Dead, a collection of short stories by North Carolina mystery writers.
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