THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF MEN AND WOMEN LOOKING

A fresh-twist mystery/suspense novel in 3 editions (sc, hc, e). This 214-pp novel is set dead center in the most contact-intense 28+ singles’ colony in the U S at Kismet, Fire Island, a haven for the divorced. It is seriocomic and character-driven the way Dickens might have done it in 2013. Published by Lulu, a POD company newly affiliated with newly combined Penguin Random House. Now available in bookstores, libraries, mail-order, etc. I have previously published 2 NF books, plus some 40x in literary magazines: Partisan Review, Nation, Sewanee Review, New Leader, etc. One story anthologized; awarded residence at Yaddo. Have Amazon Author and Facebook pages. The lead character of 5 is a woman new to the divorce mill and single motherhood, 34, looking for a new impact partner. She wonders about two things: “Am I a Calamity Jane at love?” and “Why do men kill women?” The men also have love-issue problems. Sharon fast finds herself a roommate to an unsolvable-murder victim she barely knew. And full face into a wobbly triangle with 2 men subject to post-divorce anger. Misperceptions abound in the early stages of singles’ share-housing. But in the end, many 28+ singles looking to hit th