Susan F Roberts: 7 books

Western Gal Speak was a column in a western Montana newspaper during 2007. S.F. Roberts has taken her views on life in Montana to the blogging arena. This book is the results of this years blogging. It has stories on a wake, a seventy year old bull rider and contemporary life in a small reservation town.

In 1910 the Dawes Act opened the Flathead Indian Reservation to immigrants and white settlers. A flood of families, single men and women made their way to the Little Bitterroot Valley in western Montana to claim high desert prairie ground. They found sagebrush, rattlesnakes, wild bison and Native...

An eclectic array of short stories from a ghost who solves her own murder to a woman who finds the perfect relationship after she loses a shoe down a man hole cover. Other stories include an aging private investigator who gets over his head with helping people during an investigation of a crazy woman...

Essays on artisans,writers and people in western Montana. Historical stories taken from old newspapers and historic events as well as articles on places to visit when traveling western Montana, such as museums on native and local history.

Contemporary short stories that take place in the Montana landscape. Silenced is the story of a Native woman who finds herself in a white settlement where she discovers a talent that saves her life and leads to love. In Last Dance a woman goes to a cabin near Glacier National Park for some rest and...

Ida Hawkins loves her life as a private investigator in New York City. On a Monday in May a series of events and mishaps changes the direction of her life. Within days she finds herself in the wild west of Montana embroiled in a murder investigation with Tribal Cop Samuel Runswind. Just when Ida thinks...

Detective Henri Bernard is called out for a welfare check. He finds his first love Colette Delacriox dead and in her hands a diary she had intended to give her granddaughter about love. Henri takes the diary home and begins reading it, hoping to find out if she loved him. His wife, Jeanne, also finds...