Bodies Under the Bluebonnets (The China Grove Mysteries, Band 1) - Softcover

Sechrist, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798991146944

Verlag: Kathy Sechrist, Author, Speaker, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Sara Matthews moved to China Grove for the quiet.
She found a wall instead.


Three weeks after settling into a farmhouse on Kirkner Road,
twelve miles from San Antonio, Sara found a shed at the back of her
property. Inside, on the back wall, someone had carved eight names.


The ninth name had been sanded off.


The names are girls who went missing from China Grove over four
decades. Nobody in town will say who is on the wall. Or who is missing.


Bill at Mr. Jim’s Trading Post won’t answer. Neither will Chief Dean
Williams, whom Sara has known for three weeks.
Somebody has been leaving marks on Sara’s windshield.


Sara Matthews is a writer. She has spent her life understanding what
silence protects. She has a notebook, a farmhouse next to a field with
something buried under it, and a growing list of names.


The people who sanded the ninth name off that wall know she is asking.


They are counting on her to stop.


Bodies Under the Bluebonnets is Book One of the China Grove
Mysteries. Book Two, The Watcher, arrives Winter 2026.


Kathy Sechrist’s award-winning memoirs, Success Is the Best Revenge
and Sara’s Redemption: A Journey of Courage, Resilience and Hope, trace the cost of silence in women’s lives.
Bodies Under the Bluebonnets is her first mystery novel.

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Kathy Sechrist is the award-winning author of two memoirs, Success Is the Best Revenge and Sara's Redemption: A Journey of Courage, Resilience, and Hope, about surviving what she describes as the parts of her life that don't get talked about at dinner parties. Both books have found readers well beyond what a first-time memoirist might reasonably expect, and Kathy has spent the years since publication in conversation with women who have quietly shared their own stories with her, most of which cannot be told publicly.In another life, Kathy was a civilian instructor for the military. She spent ten weeks aboard an aircraft carrier at a time when women were not yet stationed on Navy ships; a formative experience that put her in rooms most women of her generation never entered. She went on to spend years as an organizational change management consultant, work that taught her how groups form and hold themselves together, and how much of what a room knows never gets said out loud.Those two experiences, and the conversations that followed her memoirs, became the reason for her first mystery novel, Bodies Under the Bluebonnets, launching August 28, 2026, is Book One of the China Grove Mysteries. The novel is set in a small-town Texas bar and traces a community's long forty-year silence, following a woman named Sara Matthews, who has learned to notice what other people have chosen not to see. Book Two, The Watcher, will be released in Winter 2026.Kathy lives in the Texas Hill Country outside San Antonio, where the town of China Grove is based on a real place and the real people she has written into the series. She publishes under her own imprint, Whidbey Island Publishing. Her weekly Substack about the world of the China Grove Mysteries can be found at kathysechrist.substack.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Kathy Sechrist, Author, Speaker
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798991146944
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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