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02569aam a2200361 i 4500 001 262D79465A7611ED87E8DDB93EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221102011802 008 210428t20212020nyu e 000 f eng d 020 $a 0593182677 020 $a 9780593182673 035 $a (OCoLC)1248692973 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a at----- 100 1 $a Moss, Tara, $e author. 245 14 $a The war widow : $b a novel / $c Tara Moss. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, $c 2021. 300 $a 372 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Billie Walker mystery ; $v 1 500 $a Includes an excerpt from the author's The ghosts of Paris (pages 347-372). 520 $a Sydney, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, for her the heady post-war days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she's determined to take control of her own future. So she reopens her late father's business, a private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking. At first, Billie's bread and butter is tailing cheating husbands. Then, a young man, the son of European immigrants, goes missing, and Billie finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead up into the highest levels of Sydney society and down into its underworld. What is the young man's connection to an exclusive dance club and a high-class auction house? When the people Billie questions about the young man start to turn up dead, Billie is thrown into the path of Detective Inspector Hank Cooper. Will he take her seriously or will he just get in her way? As the danger mounts and Billie realizes that much more than one young man's life is at stake, it becomes clear that though the war was won, it is far from over. 650 0 $a Women private investigators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a War widows $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Missing persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gangsters $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Sydney (N.S.W.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Australia $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 800 1 $a Moss, Tara. $t Billie Walker series ; $v 1. 941 $a 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20221102013202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=262D79465A7611ED87E8DDB93EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search