{"id":2344,"date":"2016-05-24T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2016-05-24T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:29:14","slug":"2344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Carson Chance, P. I."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Saturday, June 11th, 2016, 11:00-1:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>N. E. Brown<\/strong> joins us Saturday with her latest novel, a romantic private eye story set in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/carson-chance-cover-340w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/carson-chance-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"carson-chance-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"516\" class=\"alignleft size-full bordered wp-image-2343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/carson-chance-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/carson-chance-cover-340w-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><strong>Carson Chance<\/strong> is a young Vietnam War veteran with war injuries and bad memories who returns to Dallas in 1964 to begin rebuilding his life. Returning from a VA hospital in Louisiana, twenty-four year old Carson stops to pick up a beautiful seventeen year old hitchhiker named Amy. Now a private investigator, Carson offers Amy a chance to get back on her feet only to find there&#8217;s a dark side to her past and a rocky road ahead for the two of them. This is a &#8220;modern-historical&#8221; romance set against the rock-and-roll era of the 1960s when casual sex and recreational drugs were the norm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>N. E. Brown<\/strong> is author of the Texas based historical fiction Indignities series, much of which takes place in Galveston, Texas. She retired from a successful career in real estate to pursue her passion for writing.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, June 11th, 2016, 11:00-1:00 p.m. N. E. Brown joins us Saturday with her latest novel, a romantic private eye story set in Dallas. Carson Chance is a young Vietnam War veteran with war injuries and bad memories who returns &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2344\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carson Chance, P. I.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}