Justice and Second Chances - Blog Update #1
On May 23rd in 1985, a quiet, secluded campsite near small town Mountain City, Pennsylvania became the scene of a brutal, bloody, slashing murder - in my newly released novel from Page Publishing: Murder at Mountain Tavern.
In the days that followed the murder, the young female victim’s teen lover, who had been found covered in the young woman’s blood, was arrested and indicted for her murder. What could have gone so wrong for this idyllic couple who seemed to all who knew them to be committed soul mates?
Now, thirty years after conviction and imprisonment, the man serving a life sentence for that murder has new hope for reprieve when, with advances in DNA science, the murder weapon reveals the presence of DNA from an unknown party.
This suspenseful plot is a gripping quest for second chances and long overdue justice through a reopened murder investigation as celebrated investigator Aubrey McKenna brings persistence, grit, human compassion and her own search for self and recovery to bear in navigating the surreal twists and turns of small town intrigue – an investigation that ultimately leads her far beyond the confines of Mountain City, reaching into the depths of Pennsylvania’s centers of political power - and corruption.
In the novel I patterned Mountain City, PA after Frackville, PA - the town in which I was raised - following that old writer's maxim: "write what you know best."
In the days that followed the murder, the young female victim’s teen lover, who had been found covered in the young woman’s blood, was arrested and indicted for her murder. What could have gone so wrong for this idyllic couple who seemed to all who knew them to be committed soul mates?
Now, thirty years after conviction and imprisonment, the man serving a life sentence for that murder has new hope for reprieve when, with advances in DNA science, the murder weapon reveals the presence of DNA from an unknown party.
This suspenseful plot is a gripping quest for second chances and long overdue justice through a reopened murder investigation as celebrated investigator Aubrey McKenna brings persistence, grit, human compassion and her own search for self and recovery to bear in navigating the surreal twists and turns of small town intrigue – an investigation that ultimately leads her far beyond the confines of Mountain City, reaching into the depths of Pennsylvania’s centers of political power - and corruption.
In the novel I patterned Mountain City, PA after Frackville, PA - the town in which I was raised - following that old writer's maxim: "write what you know best."
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