Local Author: Steve Wick!

Please join us for a special book signing with local author, Steve Wick! Steve's latest mystery novel, The Ruins, takes place on Long Island. See the synopsis below and we hope to see you all there!

THE RUINS

On a fall night in 1954, in working-class Lindenhurst, Long Island, a woman goes alone to a bar filled with German speakers. They are gathered to listen to the first game of the World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians at the Polo Grounds.

But Lindenhurst's new chief of police, Paul Beirne, can’t think about baseball. Still struggling with the demons from his time as a POW in Japan during the war, he gets the call that a woman’s mutilated body is found in a field north of Lindenhurst, near where a new cemetery is being constructed to accommodate the growing suburbs. There hasn’t been a murder in the village in decades, and on top of this horrific crime, there is a suspicious accident on the railroad tracks.

Paul turns to his friend Doc, a Holocaust survivor and who, like Paul, suffers from the horrors of his past. But Paul has personal horrors, too, that are outside the purview of war. Or so he thinks. In stark contrast to the whitewashed ideal others in Lindenhurst are trying to create, an evil has taken root. What Paul and Doc uncover will lead Paul to another murder, one committed two decades before, as past and present, family and world war, collide in this intense and thrilling debut from a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.