Holy Secrets

After the suicide of her psychiatrist-husband and her discovery that his life had concealed a lie, Dr. Carla Keller becomes a prisoner of her colleagues--and her husband's oldest friends--the psychiatrists of the Cartwell Psychiatric Institute

Seymour Shubin has been producing short stories and novels for over 50 years, beginning with the New York Times' bestseller Anyone's My Name. The novel has been taught in university criminology courses in the USA and "it is a book that has refused to simply lay down and die. Not only have readers continued to flood the author with letters, but the distinguished house of Gallimard published the book in France" [Fantastic Fiction]. Shubin has now written countless short stories and articles, and fifteen novels... including the Edgar Special Award winning The Captain. In recent years he has worked with Murder Slim Press, releasing the Spinetingler Award-nominees The Hunch and Lonely No More, as well as the 2013 poetry collection Why Me.

Shubin works in the crime genre, but he does not write whodunits. There's no long wait to find who the criminal is, but there is a study of how they were driven to their crimes... and whether they can be stopped or redeemed. The focus is on the effects of crime, and often their emotional impact on both the victim and the perpetrator. Jonathan Hellerman hails Shubin's "first-rate writing, marvelous characterization, believable dialogue, plus compassion, intelligence", while Rod Lott acknowledges that "he arrives at a heartbreaking end that's a sucker-punch to the groin, and I mean that as a compliment. Few writers can make you feel that kind of pain."