Tim Jollymore
Author
Publisher
Finns Way Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Police Detective Paul Tuomi has his hands full: He has just been assigned the highest profile murder case of his career, is in the middle of investigating the strange death of a family member and is about to cross the line on a long ago failed marriage. Paul’s love of his working-class beginnings — embodied in his involvement with his high school sweetheart and her son — and bond with his private detective father who lives under the cloud of...
Author
Publisher
Finns Way Books
Language
English
Description
Tim Jollymore’s fiction explores struggles of identity in American society from the viewpoint of the under and working classes. These contests — sometimes mysterious and often fierce — play out in spare, natural settings and every day, domestic life.
In Listener in the Snow, those settings become anything but natural, and the domestic life anything but tranquil or domesticated. The storyteller and main character Tatty Langille (P.O.V.) breaks...
Author
Publisher
Finns Way Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Comic, heartfelt, and mysterious, these stories charm the reader with good humor, affection for their natural settings, and the gentle, persistent seeking for a lasting place in the daily world of common folk. Some tales cast moonlight over the solitary in us all who wander at dusk. Others haunt us with loss and evoke a certain sense of autumn, likely to press sighs from an ache in our breath. Still others fill us with the pride in a true hero. Within,...
Author
Publisher
Finns Way Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The murdered girl is buried. The classmate who confessed to the stabbing is doing time. Both families moved out of town. All over? Case closed? Justice done? Not so fast. As they converge on their California high school's 100th anniversary celebration, cryptic notes unsettle members of the “Class of '67”. Some begin to question what they thought they knew. Could the convicted Doug Brandling have confessed to murder to cover for someone else?...