Girl waits with gun

Resumen del libro

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten, true story of one of the US's first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesn't quite fit the mould. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters from the city to the country fifteen years before.

When a powerful, ruthless factory owner runs down their buggy, a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their farm. The sheriff enlists her help, and it turns out that Constance has a knack for outwitting (and disarming) the criminal element, which might just take her back out into the world and onto a new path in life. Through Amy Stewart's exuberant storytelling, Constance Kopp catapults from a forgotten historical anecdote to an unforgettable historical-fiction heroine - an outsized woman not only ahead of her time, but sometimes even ahead of ours.

Biografía del autor

Amy Stewart es conocida en Estados Unidos por sus libros sobre los peligros y placeres del mundo de la botánica, cuatro de los cuales han entrado en la lista de los más vendidos de The New York Times. Vive en California con su marido, con quien regenta la librería Eureka Books, situada en una casa victoriana del siglo XIX. Stewart ha escrito para The Washington Post y otros muchos periódicos y revistas. Además colabora con frecuencia en la National Public Radio y en el programa de la CBS Sunday Morning.