The grisly death of the hermit outsider in a tight-knit neighborhood prompts a young mom to yearn for solitude. What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better Jody Hobbs Hesler “Imaginative and penetrating, these often brutal, occasionally humorous stories are crime fiction at its best.” -Zakariah Johnson, author of Mink: Skinning Time in Wisconsin To pre-order directly from the press, email Praise for The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories In The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories, Jeff Esterholm explores what happens when people slip their moorings and are set adrift. It was as if the people and region, an area in the distant past promoted by developers as the next Chicago, had slipped the moorings and drifted, minus captain and crew, on the waters of Lake Superior. The prospect of something better could not gain purchase on the south shore of Lake Superior. Occasionally, the locals glimpsed opportunity, but, just as quickly, it was gone. It was a port city: sketchy men fresh-faced boys salesmen with their sample cases able-bodied seamen. But even in 1941, in Port Nicollet, Wisconsin, a certain taint grew and spread. The last good time in the Great Lakes region, the so-called Third Coast gouged into the Upper Midwest of America, was in the shipbuilding era of the two world wars. The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories Jeff Esterholm The Legacy Series New and emerging voices in short fiction
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