January, 1951, while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan are more concerned with staying warm and shoveling snow, until a bizarre ice storm brings down a towering pine. Entangled in its root...
HA subtle, well-crafted tale featuring Constable John McIntireFrom the opening polka to the final shocking solution, easy-moving town Constable John McIntire performs a carefully constructed investigation into the death of the wealthy scion of intruders into the Upper Peninsula. He has an improba...
She foiled his attempts to join her by reminding him that there was someone else to whom he had not “tendered his condolences,” the only other person who had been really close to Nels—Wylie Petworth. “He kept asking for you at the funeral, and you hardly spoke to him when ...
I choose the dark night, full of visions and adventures, bitter destinies, sorrowful sufferings of wild hearts. Siobhan’s Lincoln was gone, and the house was blessedly silent. Even the pall of cigarette smoke had lifted. McIntire lit the burner under the coffee pot and lif...
Mia coughed. McIntire waited. “I don’t like to bother you….” It was followed by silence. She most likely hadn’t called to inform him of her admirable thoughtfulness. “I’m not busy,” McIntire told her. “What’s the problem?” “I...
by Americans for Democratic Action in convention here. “Can you get out?” A plow had rumbled by an hour earlier, but McIntire wasn’t about to commit himself to the sheriff until he found out where he would be called upon to get out to. “Don’t know f...