The Bad Reputations

The Bad Reputations

Karen V. Robichaud

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In April 1929, in prohibition-era Nova Scotia, Duska Doucette, Larkin Wade, and Jolene Taylor, su ffer tragedies.Facing destitution, they make the difficult decision to become rum-runners.

Pretending to fish for lobster, the women transport contraband liquor from ship to shore. But their work is fraught with frightening encounters with RCMP patrol boats, the Coast Guard, and rival criminals. They’re also harassed by angry fishermen who believe women have no place on the sea. Then there’s Constable Asher Hayes, suspicious of the women and tracking them closely.

When disaster strikes, the women must face an even deadlier foe—and fight desperately to make it out alive.

Softcover Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 240

About the Author:

Karen V. Robichaud is the author of six novels, including Leigh Falls, Where the River Flows, Beyond Winter’s Shadow, An Evening Sky in Autumn, The Unforgiving Sea, and Tears in the Desert. The Unforgiving Sea won the 2014 Word Guild Contemporary Fiction Award and was also shortlisted for the Grace Irwin Award. Tears in the Desert won the 2021 Word Guild Suspense Fiction Award. She lives in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.