Moon Bones

by Julie Whitesel Weston

The death of a Chinese man leads photographer Nellie Burns and Sheriff Azgo to Vienna, a ghost town in the Stanley Basin of Idaho in the 1920s. Murder and mayhem ensue. Nellie, her dog Moonshine, and others help rescue the sheriff and solve complex riddles in a landscape where greed and evil lurk.

228 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5, 2022

About the author

Julie Weston grew up in Idaho and practiced law for many years in Seattle. Her debut fiction, MOONSHADOWS, a Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery, was published in 2015 (Five Star Publishing) and was a Finalist in the May Sarton Literary Award. Her next mystery, BASQUE MOON won the 2017 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Her memoir of place, The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009), received an honorable mention in the 2009 Idaho Book of the Year Awards. Her short stories and essays have been published in IDAHO Magazine, The Threepenny Review, River Styx, Clackamas Review and other journals. She and her husband, Gerry Morrison, now live in central Idaho where they ski, write, photograph, and enjoy the outdoors.