Stealing History - Softcover

Andrews, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976323176 ISBN 13: 9780976323174

Publisher: Islandport Press, 2006

Synopsis

Just a few days into her new job as director of a busy historical society and museum nestled in the mountains of quaint Ryland, Maine, flatlander Julie Williamson discovers all is not as it should be. Her dream job is more of a nightmare. She expected to find an eccentric board of trustees, a cool reception from the assistant director who had wanted her job, and a necessary adjustment to small-town life, but she didn't expect that some of the museum's most valuable artifacts, including a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin, would quickly turn up missing. And when a murder hits especially close to home for Julie, she becomes embroiled in an ever-widening and complex mystery. Stealing History is sure to enthrall readers who love to curl up with a good mystery, especially one that weaves details of small-town life, delightful characters and history into a suspenseful tale that keeps them guessing up until the last page.

About this title

About the Author:

William D. Andrews spent summers in Maine with his family for 18 years until he could find a job to justify a permanent move. That happened in 1989 when he became president of Westbrook College in Portland. The merger of Westbrook and the University of New England freed him to pursue a lifelong interest in writing, supplemented by freelance editing and consulting for nonprofit organizations. He has published three textbooks on management communication. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

Review:

The small-but-steller Islandport Press has handed us readers William Andrew's STEALING HISTORY, which is one of the neatest entries in the history-is-a-mystery categories of fiction and one that deserves a much wider audience.

Find out for yourself, I kept turning pages long after I should have been hard at work elsewhere. --The Courier-Gazette

It's a darn good story that's told in a straight forward narrative with lively characters that I wouldn't mind seeing in a series --Gumshoe Review

Stealing History is a classic whodunit that kept me guessing until the very end. William D. Andrews has crafted a mystery, and it's a good one. --The Sun Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Islandport Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0976323176
• ISBN 13: 9780976323174
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 217