Jane Hulse, former city editor at the Santa Barbara News-Press, will talk about the latest novel in her American Revolution series, 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1 at Tecolote Book Shop, 2470 E. Valley Road, Ste. 51, Montecito.
In “Spanktown Papers,” which takes place in Philadelphia, the heartbeat of the Revolution, young journalist Sarah Barrett is working at a newspaper.
When a dashing coffeehouse proprietor is murdered, Sarah dives into the mystery and becomes entangled in a scandal that rocked the city.
Twenty Quaker pacifists were rounded up, jailed, and banished to the wilds of Virginia for eight months. Their crime? Refusing to back the war for independence.
Were the pious men secretly funneling military secrets to the British? The Spanktown Papers are key, but even these curious papers are steeped in mystery.
The novel is the third in Hulse’s series published by Open Books.
Hulse has had a long journalism career working for newspapers in Colorado and Southern California. She lives in Ventura with her husband, journalist Steve Chawkins.
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