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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Reader) Lone Star State of Death is a Texas history mystery set in central Texas in the late 1880s.When Samantha Slater steps off the train at Lowell's Crossing, a small town outside Austin, for her new job as a type-writing machine operator, she has no idea that in less than a day, she'll become editor of the paper and involved in a local mystery. When George Stanley, the ornery owner and editor of the Lowell's Crossing Lone Star, is thrown from his beloved horse, and dies on the newspaper office floor, most people in town couldn't care less. Everyone is willing to leave it at that, but Sam's nose for news is twitchin', and she feels there is much more to the story than meets the eye. Along with the printer’s apprentice, Thomas Hill, Sam sets out to find out what really happened the day that George Stanley died. It soon becomes apparent that Samantha is onto something, and someone in town thinks she's a little too curious for her own good. Will she survive a poisonous snake, a dastardly shooting and bushwhacking and other dangrous obstacles to get to the truth? Was George really killed by his favorite horse gone loco, or was it something else? Suspects are a-plenty! It seems that everyone in town, from the Sheriff to George’s own wife, had good reason to want George Stanley dead. Samantha’s solution to the mystery not only answers questions about Mr. Stanley’s death, but in the process, she uncovers a few family secrets of her own. Filled with colorful characters straight out of early Texas, Lone Star State of Death is part action-adventure tale and part suspenseful murder mystery...with a little heartwarming romance thrown in for good measure. This Texas history mystery will thrill fans of the traditional western as well as those who love a good mystery (and regional tall tales). The author is a native Texan, born in Ft. Worth, and lived in Austin for over twenty years. A series of coincidences were the inspiration for this novel. While visiting a nearby small town, and seeing an antique printing press in the window of the small newspaper there, she remembered seeing a drawing of a group of young women using a printing press. She read about the young women in the 1880s who went to work at newspapers using the newly invented typing machines. After doing months of meticulous research on newspapers at the time as well as life in central Texas of the 1880s, the author found that there was often conflict amongst owners of these papers; they weren’t always the most beloved members of society. The bits and pieces came together and soon Ms. Chukran had the story of a young woman, a printing press, a conflict and from that, the story and characters emerged. Many locations in the story are authentic, as is the description of what a small town (as well as downtown Austin) would have looked like in the late 1880s.
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| About the Author | |
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Bobbi Ann Chukran is a native Texan and author of numerous books for adults and children on a variety of subjects. She has also published non-fiction under the name Bobbi A. McRae. Bobbi graduated from the University of Texas and now lives in the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. |
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