By Reader Staff
The newest book by regional writer Dick Sonnichsen is coming out from publisher Blue Creek Press, with Tumbleweed: Angela’s Sometimes Messy and Complex Odyssey To Find Her Voice.
Sonnichsen’s second crime fiction book set in Sandpoint, Tumbleweed focuses on Nicky White, a recent college graduate taking a gap year to soak up some lake time and meet new friends. However, she has a secret or two — her real name is Angela Wilson and she’s an FBI special agent working undercover to figure out if somebody really wants to blow up a coal train on the Lake Pend Oreille railroad trestle, or if it’s just an idle threat from a hot-headed local environmentalist.
Angela’s other secret is that she’s trying to figure out who she really is. A short and disastrous marriage sent her directly into an existential tailspin. As she confesses to a new friend, she feels like a tumbleweed, blowing every which way on the winds of her own emotions. Things get messy when her abusive ex decides to take revenge on her for leaving on their first wedding anniversary — the only decision she is sure of up to that point.
As an undercover agent, she learns much about herself while dealing with a murder, a near-deadly assault, an investigation that seems to point to a disgruntled bookstore owner as an eco-terrorist and her growing awareness that her sexual orientation is not what she thought it was.
With the help of retired Special Agent Frank McBride, a couple of young loggers, her good friend Special Agent Nora Sims and bookstore owner Clyde Spooner, Wilson figures out the answers to her questions about coal train bombings and her own transformative, tumbleweed journey.
Sonnichsen’s first Sandpoint-based crime fiction book was Whipsawed: Agony, Joy and Destiny at a Mountain Pond. He is also the author of six books of social commentary. Find his work at select bookstores and amazon.com. For more information, contact Blue Creek Press at [email protected].
While we have you ...
... if you appreciate that access to the news, opinion, humor, entertainment and cultural reporting in the Sandpoint Reader is freely available in our print newspaper as well as here on our website, we have a favor to ask. The Reader is locally owned and free of the large corporate, big-money influence that affects so much of the media today. We're supported entirely by our valued advertisers and readers. We're committed to continued free access to our paper and our website here with NO PAYWALL - period. But of course, it does cost money to produce the Reader. If you're a reader who appreciates the value of an independent, local news source, we hope you'll consider a voluntary contribution. You can help support the Reader for as little as $1.
You can contribute at either Paypal or Patreon.
Contribute at Patreon Contribute at Paypal
Coming up this week! Don’t miss out on the Summer Sampler, Summerfest, the Art Party, Rock Out Cancer ... and more! See the full list of events in the 
