All God's Sparrows and Other Stories

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born into slavery in Tennessee the remarkable Stagecoach Mary Fields was a larger-than-life figure who cherished her independence yet formed a deep bond with the Ursuline Sisters traveling to their Montana mission in 1885 and spending the last thirty years of her life living there or in nearby Cascade. Mary is believed to have been the first Black woman in the country to drive a U.S. Postal Star Route the source of her nickname.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All God's Sparrows and Other Stories</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Agatha Award-winning author Leslie Budewitz brings together three short stories each originally published in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> imagining the life of Stagecoach Mary in her first year in Montana and a novella exploring her later life including:</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All God's Sparrows</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> winner of the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story; </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Miss Starr's Goodbye</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a nominee for the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award; </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coming Clean</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2021 Spur Award for Best Short Story; and </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Bitter Wind</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a brand-new novella in which Mary helps a young woman newly arrived in the valley solve the mystery of her fiancé's death and his homesteading neighbors' bitterness toward him.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Includes an abbreviated bibliography and historical notes from the author.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p>