Bøger af Preston Shires

In 1856, a group of frontier ruffians murdered Jacob Friend and his family. A year later, Addy Furlough discovers that though the culprits got their just rewards, they had not acted alone, and the mastermind is hot on her trail. What's a young lady to do? Calling in her dashing beau might help, but most importantly, she's going to need all the wit, repartee, and subterfuge she can muster to stay alive. A graduate of Oberlin College, Addy moved out west to the frontier river town of Brownville, Nebraska Territory, to establish herself as a businesswoman, promote abolition, and find her aunt, long ago kidnapped by Indians. A woman journalist was not unheard of in the 1850s, but denouncing slavery and defending Native Americans was not especially popular out on the Great Plains. Fortunately, Addy's father is wealthy enough from his railroad investments to support her in her quests, and her younger brother, Teddy, stands ready to help, but not always exactly the way she might hope. Nevertheless, Addy investigates and invariably stirs up a hornets' nest of trouble for herself and everyone connected to her. In this latest adventure, murder and mystery take center stage, but nearly all the events, speeches, letters, and many of the characters come from the pages of early Plains history. Mixing together facts, fiction, humor, suspense, and romance, Saved by the Bullet takes the reader for a delightful ride through the Old West.

Tasia Everett, a beautiful co-ed, goes missing, and it's increasingly clear there's a murderer loose on campus, and somebody needs to find the culprit. What better team of detectives than Tristan Telsmith, a religion-mocking professor, and Cambria Davenport, his Bible-thumping student. In this 'who done it', the mystery comes first, but it's equally entertaining to listen to the religious-minded Cambria trying to match wits with the atheistic professor...or is it the other way round?

Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.