Stone Cold Dead

Attorney Dave Abrams, haunted by his failure to protect a woman from her abusive husband, seeks to clear his head by traveling with his wife Kelly from Brooklyn to their new summer home in northern Michigan.  Kelly carries with her the anxiety of having left Allie, her teenaged daughter, with her ex-husband Michael, fresh out of prison and showing signs of something dark emerging in his personality.  Once in Michigan, Dave finds himself defending Frankie Asebou an Ojibwe woman who has confessed to killing her husband while Kelly learns that her daughter has fled Brooklyn with a friend and is driving to Michigan.  While Dave works to find facts to support his conviction that Frankie is innocent, Kelly flies back to Brooklyn to pick up Allie’s trail, only to learn that Michael is also tracking their daughter.  Meanwhile, aided by Livonia Walkingstick, an Ojibwe storyteller, and Kelly’s Uncle John, a retired cop from Chicago, Dave pursues his case.
    The two plots converge in Michigan leading to an explosive and startling conclusion that leaves readers as breathless as the characters.

               
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Born and raised in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, Stephen Lewis holds a doctorate in American Literature from New York University, and he recently retired as Professor of English at Suffolk Community College on Long Island, New York.

 Murder On Old Mission, a literary historical novel based on an actual case involving a man who killed his pregnant lover in 1895 on Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan, was a finalist in the historical fiction category of the 2005 Foreword Magazine's  book of the year awards.  Previously, he wrote two Seymour Lipp mysteries, set in Brooklyn and published by Walker & Company, and then moved back in time to New England in the seventeenth century, as the setting for Mysteries of Colonial Times.

He continues working in various genres, having recently published "The Procession," a poem in Dunes Review,  "The Raincoat", a short story in Paumanak Review, and two other stories: "Jerome and Jebediah" in North Atlantic Review, and  "A Lick of Blood" in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine.

Lewis has two adult daughters and now lives on five acres in a restored farmhouse on Old Mission Peninsula in northern lower Michigan with his wife, Carolyn, and third daughter. He is an avid sports fan and claims to have had a near religious experience on the night when the Rangers finally won the Stanley Cup. 

 

 

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