Judith Kirscht Knihy

Professional photographer, Veronica Lorimer, wakens to the sound of a rockcrashing through the front window of the Puget Sound island retreat sheshares with retired prosecuting attorney, Charlotte McAllister. As the attackscontinue and worsen, the local police blame a local vagrant boy, butVeronica and Charlotte suspect the source may involve their own pasts andVeronica's estranged family. As they get closer to the truth, a sudden discoverypitches their search toward tragedy.The Camera's Eye, Judith Kirscht's fi fth novel, was a fi nalist for the 2015William Faulkner Wisdom Award and was short-listed for the 2016 ChanticleerReviews' Somerset Award. A previous novel, Home Fires, (New LibriPress) was a fi nalist for the Nancy Pearl Award (best mainstream novelpublished in 2013) and won an Honorable Mention in the Readers FavoriteContest, both in 2014. Both Home Fires and Hawkins Lane were fi nalists forChanticleer Review's' Somerset Awards..Originally from Chicago, Kirscht raised her family in Michigan and taughtwriting at the Universities of Michigan and California, Santa Barbara beforemoving to Washington State to devote herself to writing fi ction.

"Son of a murderer, Ned Haskins has resigned himself to an outsider's existence until he meets Erica Romano, daughter of the town's new doctor. They create a life for themselves as forest rangers in the North Cascades-- until the release of Ned's father from prison disrupts the harmony. Ned's renewed fatalism triggers a chain of disasters that brings both face-to-face with the destructive power of their pasts and throws their future into doubt."-- cover.

"End of the Race" steals readers away to the shores of Traverse Bay, Michigan. Olympic swimming hopeful, Annika Wolfson is training for the China Olympic team when Brian, her husband and coach, takes off on a sailing trip and vanishes. Annika, bewildered and still grieving from the miscarriage of their second child, searches past and present for an explanation. Distraught, the Olympic qualifications loom. But how can she reach her pinnacle of performance with desperate questions plaguing her?Is he dead, or did he leave? Why would he abandon her and their six year old daughter?Her search reveals the impulsive, determined Brian she has known since childhood and his suspicious sail-companions who arrived home without him, but carry her no further―until a family explosion uncovers the missing piece and brings their race to a shocking end that recasts Annika's life forever.