Janet Purcell
Singer Lane: A Novel
Matthew Callahan, an artist, goes to Cape Cod in winter to try to put his alcohol-wrecked life back together. He takes a job assisting an aging Princeton scholar and, during time off, stumbles on an abandoned cabin in the woods.
He breaks into it and finds blood stains on the floor, a skeleton tucked neatly in bed under rotting covers, a 150-year old journal telling of the couple who lived in the cabin all those years ago, and the murder that ended one life and destroyed the other. There are sub-plots involving rebuilding family relationships, a tragic auto accident, a tender love story, and a shocking final chapter.
Biography
Janet Purcell, an award-winning journalist, writes a weekly fine arts column and feature stories for The Times of Trenton, the capital of New Jersey's leading newspaper.
She writes about interior design for regional and national magazines and freelances travel stories to major newspapers and other publications. This is her first work of fiction and another, The Long Way Home, is soon to follow. She is also a professional artist.
Visit her at www.janpurcellart.com.
E-mail: JP2art@aol.com