Patricia Loofbourrow

New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author

Patricia Loofbourrow writes dark, gritty, realistic, multi-layered
fiction: authentic people leading remarkable lives through desperate
circumstances. You won't be disappointed.

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Bridges: a gloomy ancient city with an aperture hanging in the sky behind the clouds.

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Four crime families control this steam-powered domed city. Unwilling mafia wife Jacqueline Spadros has secretly become a private eye to earn enough money to escape. But a case she doesn't want to take threatens to expose everything ...

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A strong lead character

with others who complement her ... Finding a young boy is what it starts out as and ends up being so much more. - Laura Furuta

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Crime families. Corruption. Kidnapping. Murder. Betrayal. What more could a reader ask for ...? - Cherie Jung, Over My Dead Body

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Rival gangs, dishonest wealthy, and the grubby poor - all trying to make a living amidst a life-style that has fallen into ruins. - Marilyn Coates

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As Mrs. Spadros looks for answers, she finds the conspiracy goes farther than she guessed. Trying to find out who all the players are may cost her more than she wants to pay. - Avid reader

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Are her friends really her friends at all? Are her enemies really her enemies? - Clabe Polk

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Me with my first book in the Red Dog Conspiracy, The Jacq of Spades. I have light skin and white hair. I'm wearing a steampunk outfit with my hair up. A picture of a zeppelin against the moon is in the background.

About Me

I've been a professional blogger, author, and editor since 2000 and began writing novels in 2005. My first published novel, The Jacq of Spades, released in 2015 and has sold over 23,000 copies worldwide. A native of southern California, I've lived in Moore, Oklahoma with my husband and three grown children since 2005.