"Girl Waits With Gun" makes excellent use of history to put a fresh spin on classic cop-and-crook types. Amy Stewart's true-life protagonist is a rough and tumble version of the early 20th century's New Woman. She is witty, sharply-drawn, and suffers no fools! /5(K). Girl Waits With Gun is historical fiction based on the true-life accounts of the Kopp sisters of New Jersey, whose lives were irrevocably changed after one roadside incident when their horse-driven buggy was damaged by a car. · Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart is a Mariner Books publication (e book- library edition) Constance Kopp is my kind of heroine! Based on the real -life adventures of Constance Kopp, this first book in the Kopp Sisters series has Constance doing battle with the owner of a silk factory after his car collides with her horse and buggy/5.
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart / Reviewed by G. Robert Frazier. Girl Waits With Gun is her first historical fiction novel. G. Robert Frazier is a former journalist, La Vergne Library Board member, reader for the Nashville Film Festival and Austin Film Festival's annual screenwriting competitions, and member of the Nashville Writers. But the minute Constance is issued a gun, she finds her calling. Set against the backdrop of the famous Paterson Silk Strike and based on actual events, Girl Waits with Gun is the first in a series of novels based on the real life adventures of Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp. Drawing on extensive research into newspaper reports. Girl Waits With Gun is the first book in the Kopp Sisters series by NYT best-selling American author, Amy Stewart. When, on a fine July day in , silk factory heir Henry Kaufman recklessly drives his motorcar into the buggy conveying Constance.
"Girl Waits With Gun" makes excellent use of history to put a fresh spin on classic cop-and-crook types. Amy Stewart's true-life protagonist is a rough and tumble version of the early 20th century's New Woman. She is witty, sharply-drawn, and suffers no fools! Suzanne Rindell, author of "The Other Typist" Yowza!. "Girl Waits with Gun is undoubtedly the most scintillating historical novel ever written about a trio of sisters in pre-World War I New Jersey Stewart shows a real feeling for the social constraints and physical discomforts of life in Stewart deftly reconstructs an era when newfangled technologies such as cars, telephones, and moving pictures existed side by side with horse-drawn carriages and oil lamps, when suffragettes were marching for the right to vote but mostly still. Girl Waits with Gun is a historical fiction book by Amy Stewart. It’s the first novel in the Kopp Sisters series, and it was released in The plot centers around a woman struggling to find her place in the world until the local sheriff’s department enlists her help in bringing a gang to justice. It’s based on the true story of one of the first female sheriffs in the United States.
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