Swannsong

About the Book

A slumbering lobstering village on the coast of Maine is the setting for this novel of revenge and murder, centered on a dysfunctional summer family, a woman who bore an illegitimate child at sixteen, and a remarkable blind horticulturalist, who, with a local detective, solves the murders. It captures the essence of small town life and some appealing and not-so-appealing characters.

About the Author

Born in California, raised in Seattle and a resident in the east for almost 50 years with husband, Ann Blair Kloman is the mother of four, grandmother to nine and a long-time student of the mystery novel. She also spends her summers in a small coastal village in midcoast Maine. She is a lifelong avid gardener, a student of Braille, a painter, and an alto in a local choir. She is at work on her second mystery.