{"product_id":"best-kept-secrets-9780727890269","title":"Best Kept Secrets","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNora heads home to Chateau in search of a fresh start, but her arrival comes at a time of social unrest that threatens to uncover long-hidden secrets.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nora Best is done running. She's heading to her hometown of Chateau, to the grand Quail House, to stay with her mother and claim the great American privilege of starting over. But she might find it is hard to start over when the past is catching up . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The night Nora arrives in Chateau, a white police officer shoots and kills Robert Evans, a young black man. The officer in question is Nora's school sweetheart, Alden Tydings. What really happened that night? Did Alden act in self-defense as he claims? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robert is the nephew of Bobby Evans, a man whose murder during the race protests of 1967 was never solved. Bobby and his sister, Grace, used to work at Quail House before Nora was born and, as tensions in Chateau rise, Nora begins to uncover secrets within her family home that could upend the lives of everyone in town . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorio, Gwen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eGwen Florio \u003c\/b\u003egrew up in a farmhouse filled with books and a ban on television. After studying English at the University of Delaware, she began a decades-long career in journalism that has taken her around the country and to more than a dozen countries, including several conflict zones. Her first novel in the Lola Wicks mystery series, \u003ci\u003eMontana\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction and the High Plains Book Award, and was a finalist for the Shamus Award, an International Thriller Award and a Silver Falchion Award. She has since released four other books in the Lola Wicks series and one standalone novel. \u003ci\u003eBest Laid Plans\u003c\/i\u003e was the first book in the Nora Best series and her first with Severn House. www.gwenflorio.net","brand":"Severn House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382200635666,"sku":"9780727890269","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be2b4f71-735d-4beb-9c8e-ff6bbddbcaf0.jpg?v=1728707447","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/best-kept-secrets-9780727890269","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}