Book Nook - Tangles: A Cold War Love Story and Mystery

Upcoming historical thriller novel Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum is launching today. Smith-Blum spent 10 months researching and interviewing experts about the real costs of the government-mandated secrecy around the leaking Hanford nuclear waste tanks that spanned decades and incorporated her findings into the novel.

Oppenheimer was just the beginning… When a harpooned whale offers proof the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is endangering all life in the Columbia River Basin, Luke Hinson, a brash young scientist, seizes the chance to avenge his father’s death, but a thyroid cancer diagnosis derails Luke’s research. Between treatments, he dives back in, making enemies at every turn. On an overnight trek, Luke discovers evidence that Mary, his former neighbor, embarked on the same treacherous trail, and her disappearance a decade prior may be tied to Hanford’s harmful practices mired in government-mandated secrecy.

 

A love story wrapped in a mystery, this stunning Cold War home-front tale reveals the devastating costs of the birth of the nuclear age, and celebrates the quiet courage of wronged women, the fierce determination of fatherless sons, and the limitless power of the individual.