When a writer gets the details wrong, readers let us know. Why? Readers bring their own experiences and knowledge to a book, and they expect authors to have done their homework when writing about subjects they know and may have lived. I remember my father, bestselling medical suspense writer Michael Palmer, recounting the mountains of…
Chapter 1 It was a chilly predawn morning when Anthony Strauss eased Sweet Caroline, his seventeen-foot Boston Whaler, from the trailer into water so dark it was indistinguishable from the sky. To the east, the rising sun raced along the riverbank, igniting the shoreline of Lake Winnipesaukee in a buttery glow. Anthony cast his lure…
Saving Meghan by D.J. Palmer is a psychological thriller about a teenage girl plagued by an ever-present mysterious illness — an illness her mother insists is real, but medical professionals, and her father, are beginning to doubt. Can you love someone to death? Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do…
