Novels


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Laurie's novels are inspired by a scrapbook her grandmother compiled from 1929 to 1933 while living in Argentina. Read more about the inspiration behind Laurie's fiction here
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Book 1

Not by Accident: Alice in Argentina

Journalist and socialite Alice Scott is on an ocean liner headed to Buenos Aires. She’ll join her husband, Walter, who oversees hydroelectric development in South America—a booming business in the Roaring Twenties. When a member of the ship’s crew gives Alice an urgent message before his mysterious death, her comfortable life is suddenly thrust in a new direction. She discovers her husband is involved in weapons research for the American government. Unknown to them, a Russian espionage ring has picked up their trail.

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Book 2
Pilate's Question: Alice in Berlin

Alice Scott gets her first solo assignment: photograph a top-secret missile launch in Berlin. It's 1931 and the U.S. needs proof that the Germans are violating the treaty that ended the Great War. Using a magazine story as her cover, Alice says goodbye to her husband who heads off to London for work. She boards a train, anxious to prove she can work on her own. But complications arise when a Nazi soldier sees her in the forest at the launch site. A ruthless assistant to Hermann Goring--Hitler's man in Berlin--he sets out to prove the truth.

But what is truth? The ancient question has many answers.

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