The Bootlegger's Bride

Can vengeance wipe away the dark shadows of the past?


Author: Rick Skwiot
Publisher: Blank Slate Press
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781943075935
ISBN10: 194307593X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | General
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | 20th Century

About the Author
A former newspaper reporter, Rick Skwiot is the author of six previously published works-- four novels and two memoirs-- that have won praise from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and major newspapers. His debut novel Death in Mexico won Florida's Hemingway First Novel Award and his second book, Sleeping With Pancho Villa, was a finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. His urban mystery Fail was a St. Louis Post-Dispatch notable book for 2014. He's taught postgraduate fiction writing at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he served as Distinguished Visiting Writer.