Louises War, Sarah R. Shaber
Louises War, Sarah R. Shaber
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Louise's War

Author: Sarah R. Shaber

Narrator: Jenny Hoops

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 10/23/2021

Synopsis

It’s 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington, DC, to work as a clerk for the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. When, while filing, she discovers a document concerning the husband of a college friend, Rachel Bloch—a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about—Louise realizes she may be able to help get Rachel out of Vichy France. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone.

About Sarah R. Shaber

Sarah R. Shaber is an award-winning mystery author from North Carolina. Her Louise Pearlie Mystery series stars a young widow working for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, DC, during World War II. Shaber also penned an earlier series of murder mysteries, the Professor Simon Shaw series, as well as a stand-alone horror novel, Blood Test, and was the editor of Tar Heel Dead, a collection of short stories by North Carolina mystery writers. Her short stories appear in several anthologies, including Carolina Crimes and Murder Under the Oaks. Shaber was the Bouchercon15 (World Mystery Conference) local guest of honor. Her website is SarahShaberBooks.net.

About Jenny Hoops

Jenny Hoops is a versatile audiobook narrator. With degrees in psychology and biology, she relishes science-related nonfiction and complex whodunnit fiction. Jenny loves acting, and excels at many accents, including American (Standard, Midwest, New England, Southern, Texas, West Coast), Canadian (French and English), British (RP, Cockney), Spanish, Italian, and German. Her nonfiction work includes biographies as well as current events and news. Jenny’s varied career: environment inspector, event coordinator, motivational speaker, soccer mom, and now narrator. In her spare time, she visits nursing homes with her friendly dog, and cheers for her sons at biathlon races. Jenny lives in rural Alberta, Canada, and records from a professionally equipped home studio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy

Louise is a widow from Wilmington NC (where I happen to live), working as a file clerk for the OSS in World War II era Washington, D.C. She's desperate to help a school friend Rachel Blach whose trapped in occupied France, facing the threat of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. And then Louis......more

Goodreads review by Tamara

I'm a longtime fan of Sarah Shaber, and I love her Simon Shaw mysteries. So I thought I might enjoy Louise's War... picked it up without even reading the cover description and now find myself, a day later, thinking: Wow! What an unexpected journey! I couldn't put the book down. The narrator's perspe......more

Goodreads review by Tatiana

Now this is how WWII historical fiction is done! (Not so much a mystery, but I’ll get to that.) Washington, D.C. 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, rises above her station of file clerk at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the government division that would become the CIA) after a mysterious......more

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