內容簡介
內容簡介 At the peak of Tommie O'Rourke's on-court triumph at the 1939 Wimbledon women's championship, her closest companion, Coach, drops dead of heart attack. Now gossip columnist Jane Benjamin's got to choose: score a big scoop reporting her friend Tommie's private life, or put herself in danger by investigating Coach's murder and its connection to a conspiracy involving US participation in the coming war?
作者介紹
作者介紹 Shelley Blanton-Stroud grew up in California's Central Valley, the daughter of Dust Bowl immigrants who made good on their ambition to get out of the field. She teaches college writing in Northern California and consults with writers in the energy industry. She serves on the advisory boards of 916 Ink, an arts-based creative writing nonprofit for children, and Stories on Stage Sacramento, where actors perform the stories of established and emerging authors. She has also served on the Writers' Advisory Board for the Belize Writers' Conference. Copy Boy is her first novel, and she's currently working on her second. She also writes and publishes flash fiction and non-fiction, which you can find at such journals as Brevity and Cleaver. She and her husband live in Sacramento with an aging beagle and many photos of their out-of-state sons. To learn where you can read her stories and more, go to shelleyblantonstroud.com.