A Woman of Valor - Softcover

Corbin, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997496797 ISBN 13: 9780997496796

Publisher: Double Diamond Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Rookie cop Valorie Dawes fights racism and sexism in her hometown police department as she pursues a savage sex offender - and confronts her own #metoo past.

For Valorie Dawes, #metoo means it's time to #fightback.

In this exciting, character-driven police procedural by acclaimed author Gary Corbin, rookie policewoman Valorie Dawes has a mission: take serial child molesters like Richard Harkins off the streets of her small hometown of Clayton, CT--for good.

But Valorie's past includes childhood abuse trauma of her own, and her battle with this cunning, vicious criminal awakens memories and emotions she'd rather forget.

Battling sexism within the department and vilification in the media as a reckless incompetent, Val finds few allies in the pursuit of this elusive, cruel criminal, even as he continues to victimize women and girls in the community.

Can Valorie overcome the trauma she suffered as a child and stop Harkins from hurting others--or will her bottled-up anger lead her to take reckless risks that put the people she loves in greater danger?

About this title

About the Author

Gary Corbin is a writer, editor, and playwright in Camas, WA, a suburb of Portland, OR. His latest novel, A Woman of Valor, is a character-driven police procedural, combining the prose style of literary fiction with the action of a thriller.

Lying in Judgment, his debut novel and Amazon.com best-selling legal thriller, wasselected as Bookworks.com "Book of the Week" for July 11-18, 2016, andwas the feature novel on Literary Lightbox's "Indie Spotlight" inFebruary 2017. The long-awaited sequel to Lying in Judgment, Lying in Vengeance, was released in September, 2017.

Gary's second novel, The Mountain Man's Dog, came out in June 2016. The sequel, The Mountain Man's Bride, was released in February 2017, and the third book in the series, The Mountain Man's Badge, was released in June, 2018.

All of these novels are available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook forms, and most are available as author-narrated unabridged audiobooks.

His writer's reference, Write Better Right Now: A Dozen Mistakes Good Writers Make-And How to Fix Them, is available exclusively on Kindle.

Gary's plays have enjoyed critical acclaim and have enjoyed several productions in regional and community theaters.

Gary is a member of the Willamette Writers Group, Northwest Editors Guild, 9 Bridges Writers Group, PDX Playwrights, the Portland Area TheaterAlliance, and the Bar Noir Writers Workshop, and participates inworkshops and conferences in the Portland, Oregon area.

Ahomebrewer and coffee roaster, Gary loves to ski, cook, and watch hisbeloved Red Sox and Patriots. He hopes to someday train his dogs toobey. And when that doesn't work, he escapes to the Oregon coast withhis sweetheart.

From the Back Cover

For Valorie Dawes, #metoo means it's time to #fightback.

Rookie policewoman Valorie Dawes has a mission: take men like Richard Harkins, a serial child molester, off the streets of her small hometown ofClayton, CT--for good.

But Val carries emotional scars from herown child abuse trauma. Her dogged pursuit of Harkins awakens hauntingmemories that lead to mistakes, amplifying the complaints of jealouschauvinists in and out of the department that Val, not Harkins, is thegreater threat.

Can Valorie overcome the trauma she sufferedas a child and stop Harkins--or will her bottled-up anger lead her totake risks that endanger the people she loves?

Edition details

• Publisher: Double Diamond Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997496797
• ISBN 13: 9780997496796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376