A huge congratulations to Dorothy Van Soest, author of Nuclear Option, for winning the 2021 Independent Press Award!
In 1984 SYLVIA JENSEN was a heavy drinker having an affair with Norton, an atomic veteran and fellow activist in the nuclear disarmament movement. In 2019, at seventy-seven and with her activist days behind her, Sylvia is protecting her hard-won recovery and simple lifestyle until Norton’s troubled son Corey draws her back into the fight. To save his life and those of countless others, she and her old friend investigative reporter J.B. Harrell must unravel a decades old mystery and face the truth of the nuclear age before it is too late.
Novelist Dorothy Van Soest, professor emerita and former dean at the University of Washington, holds a B.A. in English Literature and a Masters and Ph.D. in Social Work. Nuclear Option, her third Sylvia Jensen mystery, is grounded in her activism in the nuclear disarmament movement in the 1980s and her concerns about the increased risks of nuclear war in the present. Van Soest has twelve books published and over fifty journal articles, essays and book chapters. Three previous novels, Just Mercy (2014), At the Center (2015) and Death, Unchartered (2018) were published by Apprentice House.
You can find more information about Soest’s winning on their website today!
