The time I posted an elevator pitch for the LABOR DAYS - first novel I wrote

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In the small town of Greenwood in 1952, over Labor Day weekend, the three Brower siblings head home from the beach, and nobody has seen them since. 

LABOR DAYS is a whodunnit, the story of the town’s search for the missing children told from the perspective of three women at a time when women were expected to meet their societal expectations. 

There’s Mrs. Brower, the mother, nine months pregnant, due any minute and suddenly hearing voices of her children from beyond, her best friend (or is she) Virginia Reynold, the doyenne of Greenwood, and Kay, a hapless young school teacher whose efforts to help find the missing kids only cast further suspicions on her and her mysterious new love interest as the main suspects. 

The book explores a woman’s agency during a time when none was given, how much has changed and yet also how much has stayed exactly the same. 

LABOR DAYS is a suspenseful whodunnit for fans of quiet small town thrillers like THE GOD OF THE WOODS by Liz Moore and readers who like a little spicy mystery like BAD SUMMER PEOPLE by Emma Rosenblum. Mostly though, the book pays homage to Grace Metalious’ 1956 novel PEYTON PLACE, the first “blockbuster” novel to expose small town sex, secrets and scandal.