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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.

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"Acclaim for Moonshadows: ""The reader walks effortlessly into a West long behind us, in this gorgeously written, taut mystery. Secrets are the fuel of all fiction-prepare for Moonshadows to burn brightly."" -Ridley Pearson, bestselling author of The Red Room""A photographer's aspirations take her West in the 1920s, right into a mysterious murder case. The small town is clearly hiding many secrets, and if Nellie can't uncover them, the next corpse may be hers. This debut mystery from Weston authentically portrays the gritty mining towns and the wild beauty of Idaho while presenting a challenging puzzle."" -Kirkus Reviews""Nellie Burns strikes out for Idaho sometime in the 1920s with the obsessive idea of photographing nighttime shadows on snow. A grizzled old miner, Rosy, guides her in the backcountry, where she flounders about in the snow, taking the photos she's dreamed of and accidentally capturing the image of a dead man. Then Weston accelerates her menacing plot, and the increasingly desperate Nellie's nighttime photos prove extraordinary. A pleasant period mystery likely to draw readers of mainstream historical fiction."" -Booklist"

Acclaim for Moonshadows: The reader walks effortlessly into a West long behind us, in this gorgeously written, taut mystery. Secrets are the fuel of all fiction-prepare for Moonshadows to burn brightly. -Ridley Pearson, bestselling author of The Red Room A photographer's aspirations take her West in the 1920s, right into a mysterious murder case. The small town is clearly hiding many secrets, and if Nellie can't uncover them, the next corpse may be hers. This debut mystery from Weston authentically portrays the gritty mining towns and the wild beauty of Idaho while presenting a challenging puzzle. -Kirkus Reviews Nellie Burns strikes out for Idaho sometime in the 1920s with the obsessive idea of photographing nighttime shadows on snow. A grizzled old miner, Rosy, guides her in the backcountry, where she flounders about in the snow, taking the photos she's dreamed of and accidentally capturing the image of a dead man. Then Weston accelerates her menacing plot, and the increasingly desperate Nellie's nighttime photos prove extraordinary. A pleasant period mystery likely to draw readers of mainstream historical fiction. -Booklist

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Julie Weston grew up in Idaho and practiced law for many years in Seattle, Washington. Her short stories and essays have been published in IDAHO Magazine, The Threepenny Review, River Styx, and Rocky Mountain Game & Fish, among other journals and magazines, and in the anthology Our Working Lives. Her book, The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) won Honorable Mention in the 2009 Idaho Book of the Year Award. She appeared on a C-Span2/Book TV interview in December, 2013. Both an essay and a short story were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is the author of the Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mysteries: Moonshadows, Basque Moon, Moonscape, and Miner's Moon. She and her husband, Gerry Morrison, now live in south-central Idaho where they ski, write, photograph, and enjoy the outdoors. You can learn more by visiting www.juliewweston.com.

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