A Virtuous Woman

by L J Breedlove

Overview

A Woman's Place?

Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.

Until someone killed her.

Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled: The police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and that she got what was due her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death.

Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Women's Shelter. It looks like the killer has a list. And Katy's name is on it.

Book 3 in A Newspaper in Texas, a mystery series set in the 1980s when hair was big, skirts were short, and newspapers were booming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798223480846
Publisher:	L.J. Breedlove
Publication date:	12/14/2020
Series:	A Newspaper in Texas , #3
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

L.J. Breedlove is a former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.

"I write about religion and politics. About race and gender. I believe in the journalism axiom: Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. To which the labor organizer Mother Jones was supposed to have added: And in general raise hell. That works for me."

L.J. grew up on a cattle ranch and then went to college to be an oceanographer. She decided getting seasick was not a good trait for an oceanographer to have, and discovered journalism instead - a field that liked people who asked questions!

As a reporter and editor, she worked in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Texas, Washington, D. C. Then she got homesick for the Pacific Northwest and came home to work with college newspapers and teach journalism.

She is an over-educated, bleeding heart liberal with a penchant for heroes such as Jack Reacher. She isn't particularly bothered by the inconsistency.

You can follow her on Twitter @ljbreedlove for her political stuff, or on Facebook ljbreedlove for her writing life. Best place to find her -- besides a local coffee shop -- is at ljbreedlove.com. You can sign up for her email newsletter there. Or read her blog, snark included, and check out all her books.