Bøger af Reed Browning

Connie Haydn and Shrug Speaker, retired from their successful careers as a professor and a stockbroker, take on new challenges as informal private investigators. When they accept a woman's entreaty to solve the two-decades-old mysterious disappearance of her daughter, Joan, conflicting leads pull them far from their rural hometown of Humboldt, Ohio. Intriguing suspects include a concert violinist and a sheisty evangelist when Connie and Shrug-self-dubbed the Second-Best Club-collect evidence and puzzle-out theories in their War Room.

Their probing uncovers secret love affairs as well as an entanglement of antagonisms, hatred, admiration, generosity and remorse. But, it takes visits to Texas and a remote Scottish town before the two members of the self-dubbed "Second Best Club"can finally expose the decades-old story that explains Tony's death. The ending will shock!

Reed S. Browning explores the often-changing war aims of the major belligerents-Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and Spain-and links diplomatic and military events to the political and social context from which they arose.