The Woman in the Shack

Wilhelmina Krause-Wally to everyone who mattered-had spent thirty years making herself invisible. A German butcher's daughter who once sang for the Ziegfeld Follies, survived a calculating marriage, and quietly built a financial fortune no one suspected, she had settled into a reclusive life in a bay shack with her 1931 Chevy and a loaded pistol in her purse. She wanted nothing but her dock, her duck boat, and the steady friendship of Whitey, the mechanic who kept her car running and her secrets safe. Then Whitey turns up dead.
The county coroner calls it a coronary. Wally knows better. When a smooth, dangerous man from her party circuit appears at her boardinghouse, asking about old documents she has kept hidden for twenty years, Wally understands exactly what is happening-and what it costs her only real friend. She is sixty-one years old, half-deaf in one ear, and moves more slowly than she used to. She is also the most prepared woman in the county. THE WOMAN IN THE SHACK is a taut, emotionally gripping thriller about a woman who survived everything the world threw at her-and who is not finished yet.
Fans of strong, unconventional heroines and richly drawn period suspense will find in Wally a character unlike any they have met before.