She considered taking that name. But it was Jamaica Kincaid instead. The only people who bought that fish tale were critics who had never seen a bill for processing or sound mixing. But, for Kathy Acker, thievery is the key to writing. In some parts of the country, spring is dazzling everyone with its repertoire of fine tricks.
Story comes first.
Instead, this is part apologia for science as arbiter of truth and understanding, part jeremiad against the forces of pseudoscience, gullibility, religiously inspired ignorance and entertainment addiction. While some mystery writers labor to create new situations for their series character, Marilyn Wallace effectively takes a different approach. Wallace is building a fine series around an entire town. But beneath the veneer of normalcy, malevolence lurks in the fictional Hudson Valley town.