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Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery Series

Step into the roaring 1920s with a bold photographer as she seeks adventure and a career in the American West. Each installment plunges her into a new locale, unearthing thrilling mysteries and dangerous intrigues that challenge her sharp wit and observational skills. Often clashing with local law enforcement, she uses her camera and intellect to chase down the truth behind perplexing crimes. This series offers a compelling narrative of a woman forging her own path through a rugged world filled with secrets, revenge, and loss.

Basque Moon
Moonshadows
Moonshadows
Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery
Moonscape

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    Moonshadows

    • 303 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.9(30)Add rating

    In the early 1920s, photographer Nellie Burns leaves Chicago to find adventure and a career in the West. She lands in Ketchum, Idaho. Out one night photographing moonshadows on snow, she discovers and photographs a dead body. When the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she joins the chase to solve the mystery and find her negatives. But the Basque sheriff does not welcome her help, and the Chinese residents in town suspect Nellie herself of murder. As Nellie unravels the mystery of the missing body, she encounters a tangled web of revenge, opium addiction, obsessive love and loss, and a haunting story of devotion.

    Moonshadows
  2. 1

    Moonshadows

    • 464 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
    4.0(1)Add rating

    In the early 1920s, photographer Nellie Burns leaves Chicago to find adventure and a career in the West. She lands in Ketchum, Idaho. Out one night photographing moonshadows on snow, she discovers and photographs a dead body. When the body disappears and her negatives are stolen, she joins the chase to solve the mystery and find her negatives. But the Basque sheriff does not welcome her help, and the Chinese residents in town suspect Nellie herself of murder. As Nellie unravels the mystery of the missing body, she encounters a tangled web of revenge, opium addiction, obsessive love and loss, and a haunting story of devotion.

    Moonshadows
  3. 2

    Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery

    • 250 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    Nellie Burns, photographer, and her Labrador dog, Moonshine, travel with sheep rancher Gwynn Campbell and his Basque sheepherder to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho. Nellie plans to photograph scenes for a railroad's brochures to lure tourists to the West. When they arrive at the sheep camp, they discover the current herder is dead. Nellie's curiosity and photography lead her to a moonshine still and then a dash up a forested mountain. Nellie and Moonshine confront the greatest challenges yet to their courage and ingenuity when they face a range war and a ruthless killer. Basque Moon is an exciting and authentic story of western conflicts in the 1920s. Nellie must dig deep to restore her faith in herself and her chosen profession.

    Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery
  4. 2

    Basque Moon

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.3(7)Add rating

    Nellie Burns, photographer, and her Labrador dog, Moonshine, travel with sheep rancher Gwynn Campbell and his Basque sheepherder to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho. Nellie plans to photograph scenes for a railroad s brochures to lure tourists to the West. When they arrive at the sheep camp, they discover the current herder is dead. Nellie s curiosity and photography lead her to a moonshine still and then a dash up a forested mountain. Nellie and Moonshine confront the greatest challenges yet to their courage and ingenuity when they face a range war and a ruthless killer. Basque Moon is an exciting and authentic story of western conflicts in the 1920s. Nellie must dig deep to restore her faith in herself and her chosen profession."

    Basque Moon
  5. 3

    Moonscape

    • 377 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.0(1)Add rating

    A WILLA Award-Winning AuthorA Nellie Burns and Moonshine MysteryIn the Craters of the Moon in southwest Idaho, where three people are missing, Nellie Burns accompanies Sheriff Asteguigoiri to the lava fields as his photographer. Marked on maps as "unexplored" and "unknown," the miles of lava resist easy navigation and Nell's photography. Rosy Kipling, the one-eyed miner and Nell's friend, is recruited to assist in the search amidst concerns about a religious cult and money related to the missing. Physical obstacles, secrets and lies, and consuming greed endanger all. And alone, Nell faces an attempt on her sanity and her life in this remote and almost inaccessible natural phenomenon.

    Moonscape