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November 2, 2015 -\xa0For our first historical fiction author, we're pleased to introduce Jennifer Kincheloe's debut novel: The Secret Life of Anna Blanc. Join us in 1907 Los Angeles, where Anna Blanc chafes under the thumb of her controlling father and yearns for a life of crime -- solving them that is.\n\nInspired by the wild Santa Anna winds, Anna joins a suffragette protest, lies to everyone in her life, and takes a job as an LAPD police matron -- under a not particularly convincing fake name.\n\n"If the police find out, she'll get fired; if her father finds out, he'll disown her; and if her fianc\xe9 finds out, he'll cancel the wedding and stop pouring money into her father's collapsing bank."\n\nAnd so the stakes are set, in the secret life of our spunky heroine: Anna Blanc.\n\nYou can follow Jennifer Kincheloe @JenKincheloe on Twitter, or like the novel's Facebook page. And if you're hungering for more of LA at the dawn of the 20th Century, check out Jennifer Kincheloe's Pinterest page. It features over 35,000 images from her extensive research on the period.\n\n\n\n\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nAdditional books discussed on this episode: