Shade by H. N. Hirsch; Award-Winning A Twilight Reel by Michael Amos Cody
H. N. Hirsch’s brilliant, classic murder mystery, Shade, comes out just in time for summertime reading! When gay, misfit Harvard Professor Marcus George discovers that one of his most brilliant recent graduates, scion of a wealthy, establishment Boston family, has been brutally murdered at a gay Maine resort, he finds himself investigating the agonizing question who might have wanted Trip Howard — Addison Cornell Howard III — dead, and why. While striving to gain tenure amid the backbiting, backstabbing world of academic politics, he begins to discover the tawdry details of the young scholar’s life … along with an unexpected love of his own.
“Highly recommended” by Midwest Book Review’s senior reviewer, Diane Donovan, and not just for mystery fans. “Describing Shade as a ‘murder mystery’ alone does it an injustice. Few books would tackle the conundrum presented by the outcome of a murder probe that reveals forces of corruption alongside the draw of a love destined to change everything. These elements set Shade apart from most other murder mysteries.”
Cody honored with Feathered Quill
Michael Amos Cody has been honored with the 2021 Feathered Quill award for A Twilight Reel, his collection of short stories, and was recently named a Feathered Quill finalist for his previous novel, Gabriel’s Songbook. A Twilight Reel will be released for Kindle in June.
Reed’s Homophones Fourth Edition with expanded listings is available now at Amazon
Letters of the Lost Children: Japan — WWII, by Reinhold C. Ferster and Jan Atchley Bevan is now available through local bookstores and online booksellers. The coffee table-sized volume ($34.95, 35 illustrations) is built around original pictures of Japan’s student-soldiers (some as young as 13) sacrificed as military fodder in the final years of the Second World War. The cache of photographs, apparently collected by an unidentified American soldier, forms the background for an in-depth, dramatic recreation of the lost lives of these unknown boys through a series of well researched, re-imagined letters to family and loved ones. The book includes historical research into the culture of Imperial Japan and its approach to war.
In a first collaboration with Sunny and Al Lockwood’s Front Porch Publishing, Pisgah Press will release the print version of one of the couple’s delightful travel books: Cruising Eastern Canada, about their voyage from Boston to Montreal—via Bar Harbor, Maine; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Quebec City, and other 0aritime stops and the St. Lawrence River. The Lockwood’s have written numerous best-selling travel memoirs, in both eBook and print formats, including: Cruising Panama’s Canal: Savoring 5,000 Nautical Miles and 500,000 Decadent Calories; Cruising the Mediterranean; Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona; Cruising the Atlantic: Our Epic Journey from Miami to Barcelona; and Cruising the Mississippi: From New Orleans to Memphis on a Genuine Paddlewheeler.
Editor-in-chief A.D. Reed has updated and expanded the fourth edition of Reed’s Homophones: A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words. It’s available here or through Amazon.com for just $17.95.