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The War Widow

✍ Scribed by Tara Moss

Book ID
100672224
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2020
Tongue
en-US
Weight
201 KB
Series
Billie Walker Mystery 1
Edition
(US)
Category
Fiction
City
New South Wales--Sydney., Sydney (N.S.W.
ISBN
0593182669

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✦ Synopsis

The war may be officially over, but journalist Billie Walker's search for a missing young immigrant man will plunge her right back into the danger and drama she thought she'd left behind in Europe in this thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in glamorous postwar Sydney.

Sydney, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, for her the heady postwar days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she's determined to take control of her own future. So she reopens her late father's business, a private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking.

At first, Billie's bread and butter is tailing cheating husbands. Then, a young man, the son of European immigrants, goes missing, and...

✦ Subjects

New South Wales -- Sydney

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