The Hurricane Stew

Martine Wolfe-Miller was born in the southern French town of Tarbes where she grew up near the magnificent snow-capped Pyrenees Mountains. She majored in French literature and studied classical languages, Greek and Latin. At an early age, Martine was entranced by mythology and literature and the enticing worlds they evoked. A voracious reader, she spent endless hours at the library, reading French classics and dreaming of adventures.

 

A family connection with a Minnesota exchange student opened doors and an educational path to America. After a five-year hiatus working on a farm, raising sheep and honey bees, Martine graduated from the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with a degree in French and English.

 

She wrote articles for a local weekly newspaper before managing a competing newspaper. After nearly 15 years working in and enjoying Pennsylvania, Martine moved to South Carolina with her two children, Nathaniel and Gabrielle.

 

Since relocating to the Charleston area, Martine has put her writing and multimedia skills to good use, winning state and national public relations awards. With more than 26 years of experience in the field of communications, Martine looked for new challenges and took up the more intimate pursuit of novel writing.

 

The Hurricane Stew is her first novel, a fictional work set in the South; a region she has loved and called home for the past 24 years.

 

The story is set during the largest hurricane landfall to hit the Carolina Coast. As mayhem looms, four unlikely allies join forces and foil the plans of an art thief and uncover a secret that could shock the art world.

 

The Hurricane Stew is a fast-paced Southern mystery novel set in a genteel coastal town veiled in a proud and troubled past. The novel spreads its web of scholarly intrigue across two continents and over six centuries, back to High Renaissance Italy. At stake is a discovery so astonishing that it will redefine a thief's obsession and an artist's legacy.

 

Martine is writing her second novel, titled The Bottom of the Jar. It is steeped in her family lore and influenced by the years her maternal grandparents spent in the French Protectorate country of Tunisia. Set during the Algerian War of Independence that inflamed the Maghreb in the early 1960’s, The Bottom of the Jar  recalls the epic clash of two cultures and belief systems and the characters of both faiths caught in the conflict.

 

Martine lives in North Carolina with her cat Sherlock.