Chasing the Wind: A Roxy Loewen Mystery

Written by C.C. Humphreys

Narrated by C.C. Humphreys

You should never fall in love with a flyer. You should only be in love with flight.

That's the rule that Roxy Loewen-aviatrix, and protege of the great Amelia Earhart-always lives by. Until she falls hard for fellow pilot Jocco Zomack and he leads her into a whole heap of trouble. From African skies to a hot cellar in Madrid, from the Berlin Olympics to the last flight of the Hindenburg, from gun running to the heist of the century, Roxy is just one step ahead of the Nazis-and one loop-de-loop from disaster.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Apr 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977344588

C.C. Humphreys

An award-winning novelist, playwright, actor and teacher, Chris Humphreys has written 22 novels including ‘The French Executioner’ - runner up for the Steel Dagger for Thrillers, UK -‘The Jack Absolute Trilogy’, ‘Vlad–The Last Confession’, and ‘A Place Called Armageddon’. Chris adapted his 12th novel, ‘Shakespeare’s Rebel’ for the stage and it received its premiere in 2015 at Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, Canada. His novel ‘Plague’ won Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in 2015. ‘Chasing the Wind’ follows the daring adventures of 1930s aviatrix, Roxy Loewen. His modern crime novel, ‘One London Day’ was published in 2021. He recently completed his epic fantasy series for Gollancz, ‘Immortals’ Blood’, beginning with 'Smoke on the Glass'. His novels for young adult readers include, ‘The Runestone Saga Trilogy’ published by Knopf, as well as ‘The Tapestry Trilogy’. His latest novel is 'Someday I'll Find You', a WW2 epic romance. It was published by Doubleday Canada on June 6th 2023 and around the world on Spetember 5th 2023. His novels have been translated into thirteen languages. He holds a Masters in Fine Arts (Creative Writing) from the University of British Columbia, has been keynote speaker and Guest of Honour at several conferences - including the HNS North American Conference in Denver 2015. A busy audiobook narrator, as an actor Chris has performed on stages from London’s West End to Hollywood. Visit him at: https://www.authorchrishumphreys.com/

Reviews for Chasing the Wind

[gypsysmom_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book is an historical smorgasbord: the stock market crash, art theft, Nazis, gun-running, Communists, flying, the Hindenberg, the Spanish Civil War. Think of anything happening in the 1930s and C. C. Humphreys has managed to fit it in. I gobbled it up.Roxy Loewen was the daughter of a rich man and he denied her nothing. In 1929 the last thing he bought her was a plane and she joined those first female pioneers of flying like Amelia Earhart and Louise Thaden. Then the stock market crash happened and her father lost everything. His former partner, Sydney Munroe, was out for his blood so he said goodbye to Roxy and stepped in front of a streetcar. Then Munroe wanted to get his hands on Roxy but she evaded his clutches, left the US and used her plane to make a living. Seven years later she was in Africa running guns for the Ethiopians trying to stave off Mussolini's army. When that cause was lost she was convinced by her Communist lover, Jocco, to head to Spain to pick up a painting. Jocco's father was an art dealer in Germany and he had heard there was an original Breugel in a church in Spain. Roxy was to meet an art expert there who would authenticate the painting and then she would fly it to Germany. Except things didn't turn out as expected. The painting ended up in Germany just in time to be shown during the 1936 Olympics and Roxy and Jocco were determined to steal it back. What could be difficult about stealing a priceless painting out from under the noses of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring? I'm not going to answer that; read the book.I've read a few other books by Humphreys. Like this one they are filled with twists and turns and do somewhat strain credulity but they sure are entertaining.