Damned If You Don't: A Catskill Mountain Mystery

by Anita Page

Overview

Raised in the Sixties on picket lines and peace marches, activist Hannah Fox can't turn her back when a friend's land is targeted by an eminent domain scam that threatens her small town in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. When the developer behind the fraudulent scheme is murdered and her young friend becomes a suspect, Hannah probes the dead man's shameful past. She faces hard choices, convinced the murder was a heroic act even when it's clear she may be the killer's next victim.

When Hannah volunteers at a domestic abuse hotline and tries to help the women and children whose lives become entwined with her own, she's caught in the town’s secrets, lies, and double dealing. Trouble invades her private life as she tries to curb the mounting attraction between herself and Jack Grundy, Senior Investigator for the New York State Police, while watching her own marriage crumble.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985294823
Publisher:	Glenmere Press
Publication date:	09/15/2013
Series:	Hannah Fox Catskill Mountain Mysteries , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	241
File size:	733 KB

About the Author

Anita Page's first novel, Damned If You Don't, is a dark traditional mystery set in the Catskill Mountains featuring community activist Hannah Fox and Senior Investigator Jack Grundy of the New York State Police. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies, ezines and print journals, including Family Matters: Murder New York Style,which she edited; Fresh Slices and Deadly Debut, also from the Murder New York Style series; The Gift of Murder (Wolfmont Press), The Prosecution Rests (Little, Brown), The Back Alley, Word Riot, Mysterical-e, Mouth Full of Bullets, Heresies, and Ball State University Forum. She received a Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society in 2010 for "'Twas the Night," which appeared in The Gift of Murder

Anita, a native Brooklynite, moved with her family to the Catskills in the mid-Seventies, and from there to New York's Hudson Valley. While in the Catskills, she worked as a freelance feature writer for a regional newspaper. There, too, she met the inspiring women who became the model for Hannah Fox's Women of Action in Damned If You Don't. She can be found online at www.womenofmystery.net and www.anitapagewriter.blogspot.com.