Book Beginning: Bitter Cry: A Sage Adair Historical Mystery by S. L. Stoner

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MY BOOK BEGINNING

The boy slipped into the saloon on the heels of a stumbling drunk.

Bitter Cry by S. L. Stoner, a Sage Adair historical mystery. This is the eighth mystery in Stoner's Sage Adair series, set in the early 1900s in Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Adair is a secret operative in the early days of organized labor.

From the back cover:

Night fog drives a young newsboy into a seedy saloon where his appearance catapults Sage Adair into a world of painful memories, child exploitation and frantic searches for missing loved ones.

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YOUR BOOK BEGINNING




TIE IN: The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice is a natural tie in with this event and there is a lot of cross over, so many people combine the two. The idea is to post a teaser from page 56 of the book you are reading and share a link to your post. Find details and the Linky for your Friday 56 post on Freda’s Voice.

MY FRIDAY 56

“They sent a twelve-year-old into a saloon and a whorehouse?”

Fong’s nod was sad as he said, “all night long, that where they send him – brothels, restaurants, saloons, opium dens, gambling houses.”