In 1998, Laura-Jean Gilbert and her husband “changed zip codes” moving from Washington, DC, to Washington, NH. For the past 15 years, she has been a member of the Rescue Squad in that community and is currently a licensed paramedic working both in Washington and Newport, NH. During that time she also completed the just published novel Murder Between Friends. She will be at The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 11 a.m. to discuss and sign the book.
Threatening letters, two unhappy families, and two untimely deaths. Set in Philadelphia and the Boston area in the 1980s, this novel explores the possibilities and the consequences when two friends fantasize how to resolve their family problems. What if…? They ask each other. One of these possibilities – murder – suddenly becomes a reality. But, is one, or both, of the friends a killer? And is there just one murderer or two? What is the connection, beyond their friendship, that links the deaths? As one of the friends tells the other early in the book, “Agatha Christie had Miss Marple state in one of her mysteries, “Everyone is capable of murder.” Would either of these women think resolving a problem and easing others’ pain to be a crime? Would they think of their fantasized solution not as murder but as justifiable homicide? Given their situations, what would you, the reader, do?
Laura-Jean Gilbert grew up in Milton, Mass., and is a graduate of Emerson College, American University, Union Theological Seminary, and Gallaudet University. She has lived and worked in the Boston area, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, where for more than 25 years she worked in public relations and publications.
This event is free and all are welcome. For more information call the bookstore at 924-3543.