Poems about depth of place and New England land and life.

Historian and trail runner Liam Dutra loves the mountains and waters of his home in Vermont. He also loves questions; maybe too much for his own good. When an ancient, tattered journal comes his way, the quest for answers leads Liam to the surprising connections between an 1866 rebellion by Irish Republicans in Vermont and a series of present-day murders taking place in the shadows of nearby Irish Hill Ridge. With the help of earthy and dynamic Shawn Donahue-who just might have her own stake in things-Liam Dutra has a chance to unlock ancient secrets, unearth Civil War treasure, and solve the...

Historian and trail runner Liam Dutra is back for more adventure and exploration, investigating the history at the heart of New England mysteries. This time he's looking for long-lost poet-- and fisherman--Virgil Dubois. Liam's quest begins on the shores of Lake Champlain with Virgil's Abenaki roots, and leads to the poet's troubled past on the U-boat-haunted waters off New England in the early years of World War II. Meanwhile, at home in Vermont, a death by snakebite on the shores of Lake Champlain may be more than an accident, and Liam and his partner Shawn Donahue are caught up dangerously...

Liam Dutra's idylls are always temporary. As summer cools into the vivid colors of a Vermont fall, he's teaching history at an ivied prep school, along with running long miles on wooded trails and exploring the blue waters of Lake Champlain. But when brilliant student Jenn Creswell goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Liam cannot ignore the call to help find her. And it turns out that the autumnal woods and ridgelines nearby hold some strange secrets: Ancient druidic stone ruins; a misanthropic and reclusive old Scottish composer; dead bodies old and new--to name a few. This third...

Rich with local atmosphere and an evocative sense of time and place, shot through with the lore and history of the steel guitar and North American roots country music, HIGHWAY IN THE BLOOD is at once a murder mystery, an adventure story, and a lyrical, poetic love song to the land and life of northern New England. In 1974, haunted by the murder of the woman he loves, Buck Hawkins leaves behind his life as an oil rig diver and honky-tonk steel guitar player along the Texas Gulf coast and returns to seek solace and healing in his rural Vermont hometown. Living alone on the old family farm and...