WomanGathering with local writer and artist Christine Andreae

Guest Speaker: Christine Andreae Author: Searching for a Sister Lost at Sea, A Family Memoir Christine Andreae is a writer and artist who lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where she and her architect husband hand-built their house and raised their two sons. Her latest book is a privately printed, illustrated memoir, Searching for a Sister Lost at Sea – a moving exploration of her father’s search for her youngest sister who disappeared in the Pacific in 1979.

For a look inside or to buy, please see http://christineandreae.com/searching

She is also the author of four crime novels, all set in Montana where she and her family spent summer vacations hiking and riding in the backcountry. Her first mystery, Trail of Murder (1992, St. Martin’s Press), was nominated for an Edgar and began the series starring Lee Squires, a professor and poet from Washington, D.C., who moonlights as a camp cook in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Lee’s adventures continue in Grizzly (1994, SMP) and Small Target (l996, SMP).

The series will be re-published as e-books in the fall of 2018. Christine’s stand-alone novel, the critically acclaimed Smoke Eaters (2000, SMP) is set on a Western wildfire. Her redheaded heroine, Mattie McCullugh, is an Incident Commander who combats wildfire, sexism, and a psychopathic killer. The thriller was a finalist for a Willa Award from Women Writing the West and was also named a Thriller of the Year by the Washington Post.

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More about FRWRC – The Front Royal Women’s Resource Center (FRWRC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996 to provide a support network for women in the Warren County area. Through monthly meetings, resource breakfasts, email connections and program activities, we have forged a link between women in our community. www.frwrc.org