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.
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She's Going to Get Married
Katy Williams proposed to her football coach in the newsroom — and he said yes.
But then things got difficult.
The only pastor who speaks to her can't marry them unless they're willing to publicly confess their sin and live apart until the ceremony. He's apologetic, but the deacons said no exceptions, not even for the football coach.
So Katy turns to her former landlord, her source for all things Texan. Get the judge to do it, Carolyn says. Say what? Have a former lover perform the ceremony? Carolyn shrugs. In a small town, these things happen.
But then Katy lists the women she wants for her bridesmaids, and Carolyn is silent. Apparently integrated wedding parties don't happen?
And the dates came came out for the state playoff games — and everyone says Coach Parker will be taking his team to state this year — and the final game conflicts with their wedding date.
And then it got political. Of course it did, this is Texas, the 1980s and Katy Williams is the news editor of the Plains City Gazette.
Book 5 in the historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas.
Título : Weddings, Politics & Football
EAN : 9798201968083
Editorial : L.J. Breedlove
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