My next book, The Hindenburg Spy, is the fourth in the Lane Sanders series focusing on a lively take on 1930s New York City. The era was rife with difficulties and hardship, but I found that the history of the Depression tends to overlook the vibrancy, the art, the ADVENTURE that made the people not only survive, but thrive in NYC.

It had been while since I'd jumped back into these books and lived again with my characters. I realized I missed them as if they'd become friends. I also saw in profound ways that these books have an incredible message for us today as we, too, live in an era full of strife and anxiety of all kinds. As I wrote the fourth installment and reread books 1-3 honestly, the history as well as the act of creating itself gave me hope. Art took off like crazy in that era, and I can't help but get excited that we will see new bounds reached in our own. I highly recommend art --just like Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia!-- as a healer of our souls.

In each of these books, a piece of art is in the background of the novel and comes alongside a character to help them navigate the mystery and life. In The Hindenburg Spy, the incomparable world of jazz is backdrop including a fabulously spicy scene with Josephine Baker in Paris and a night on Swing Street (52nd Street) at the Onyx Club with Billie Holiday. Divine!

I will keep you posted. Keep on the lookout for a Giveaway soon! Loads of love to you magnificent readers. - Laurie

The Hindenburg Spy