Thread of Gold

"Stop the presses! An appealing crime fiction heroine is born!" --Kirkus Reviews
"Do not miss this book, adventurous readers." --Les Standiford, bestselling author of Meet You in Hell

Author Anne Da Vigo weaves a gem of a story about gold, greed, longing, and forbidden love that spans three generations of women ensnared by a local legend of buried treasure.

Abby is a girl on the lip of her teens in 1918 who's in love with her older neighbor and agrees to keep his secret. Alice, haunted by loneliness, joins the corps of women welders building ships during World War II. And contemporary crime reporter Cora Brooks launches an investigation into the death of the publisher's friend.

As Cora digs into the murder, every twist in the case draws her more deeply into the lives of women from the past and their connection to an illusive treasure.

Anne Da Vigo is a novelist, journalist and public relations professional. She graduated from Fresno State University and worked for newspapers throughout California where she wrote about scams, murders, and other mayhem on the court and police beats. She covered the infamous Chowchilla kidnapping of 26 children from a rural school bus and the Lords of Bakersfield murder cases. The seed for her novel, Thread of Gold, came from a 1994 New York Times article detailing mysterious deaths in the tiny village of Preble in upstate New York. Her mother’s family had deep roots in the area, and Da Vigo saved the clipping, eventually crafting it into this twisting, complex blend of reality and fiction. She is winner of the novel excerpt competition at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and the recipient of the Jameson Book Award given by the University of Pacific’s Creative Writing at Pacific conference. She has been a featured writer at Stories on Stage Sacramento. Her short stories have appeared in Literary Mama, Penduline Press, The Capra Review, and Fiction on the Web.