A Tear in the Silk

About the Book

In horror, Nora McShane watched her father die in the balloon he’d designed, hurtling downward. Nevertheless, she agrees to build a dirigible from his plans, in partnership with another aeronaut, Wolf Sanger, and puts aside as irrational her fears at living and working in his secluded mansion. But someone wants the dirigible to fail. Wants it badly enough to murder.

About the Author

After graduation from Wellesley College, Louise O’Flaherty worked as a navy cryptographer breaking German submarine codes. After the war, she and her husband, a native of southern California, came to live on the west coast. Inspired by that harsh golden land and its turbulent history, she has written eight novels set in and around the early years of Los Angeles.