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Irritating Characters Doing Dumb Things Slowly Author: Thomas Tryon Ned and Beth are the usual, dissatisfied suburbanites with a living-off-the-land fantasy. When chance brings them through the quaint village of Cornwall Comb, they know they have found a new life. One ruled by harvest and the old ways. It is perfect, idyllic, and too good to be true. Enter the Widow Fortune, an agrarian symbol of wisdom. Ned and Beth both form friendships with the superstitious, oddly powerful Widow. She even saves their daughter from her life threatening asthma. Yet there is something sinister in all her knowing, her intimations, and [...]

What Washes Up

Repercussions and Confessions Author: Dawn Lee McKenna Maggie Redmond is finding little solace in her work; still recovering from the gruesome murder of her ex-husband, she is excluded from most of the current cases, which have ties to David’s death and a series of drug related murders that connect back to his past. This means that Maggie is still caught up in her own prior dead-end case involving a dismembered foot. This case has a haunting connection to the Boudreauxs, Maggie’s traumatic rape as a teenager, and her own desire to let a suspected murderer, and strange friend, run free. As [...]