Babs

Leavy won many high-profile cases during his storied career at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, but few drew more attention than the case against the woman nicknamed “Bloody Babs.”

Babs Thwaites says the summer fires exacerbate her COPD, trapping her indoors, unable to visit friends or walk her dog.

A master of witty, thoughtful fiction who does not retreat from tackling big concepts, Ron Currie explores new physical and emotional territory in “The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne.”

Married and widowed some 50 years later, Babs’ realm includes settling disputes between community residents and the local police and, more significantly, running an opioid ring in the region with her girlfriends, all gray-haired pillars of the Little Canada community.

But by 2016, Babs’ world is imploding.