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On Christmas day, thousands of people assemble in Washington Crossing, PA, to observe the re-enactment of – you guessed it! – George Washington’s famed crossing of the Delaware River in 1776.
Miren Lassiter, the main character of my mystery novel, Same River Twice, attends the re-enactment, along with others who find themselves at loose ends on Christmas. Some are history buffs; some are people who don’t celebrate the holiday and are eager for an interesting outing.
It also includes people like Miren, a laid-off newspaper reporter who chooses to spend most holidays alone. She is reclusive, but not a hermit. She is a-romantic, but not a-sexual. She loves and savors her independence and privacy. She eats a holiday meal alone, then bundles up and heads for the Crossing.
Like so many who attend the event, Miren is struck by the significance of Washington’s accomplishment. After a disastrous retreat from New York, with the British in hot pursuit, he desperately needed a victory to energize his flagging troops and their cause.
Crossing the icy river in the dark, the troops, along with horses and artillery, marched down the New Jersey side to Trenton. They arrived at daybreak on the 26th, finding the British barracks still recovering from a very festive holiday.
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With this in mind, Miren watches the re-enactors gather by the river, welcome “George” as he emerges from the actual inn where the real George dined in 1776, and march down to the barges. They pole their way across the river, not quite as elegantly as they appear in Emanuel Leutze’s iconic painting, and climb up the bank on the Jersey side.
The re-enactors, of course, don’t march to Trenton. They don’t take prisoners, and they take the bridge instead of boats back to the Pennsylvania side. Among those in colonial uniform marching across the bridge is someone Miren recognizes. Someone she suspects of murder.
But that’s another story.
In this debut mystery, a reclusive newspaper reporter is laid off and finds her carefully guarded world upended. She inherits her scientist uncle’s cottage along the Delaware River, and with it, hidden samples of the toxic fungus he was studying.
She discovers the body of a local historian hanging from an antique gallows in a museum, and soon becomes a suspect in his murder. Mysterious intruders break into the cottage, including a burglar who steals only toothbrushes.
Only by reaching out to scientists, history buffs, and nosy neighbors can she confront the reasons behind her fear of intimacy and thwart a murderer…before she becomes the next victim.
Janet Poland is a transplant from the West Coast to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Same River Twice is set. She is a poet, former journalist, and author of seven non-fiction books in addition to her mystery novel. She enjoys travel, flash fiction, and retweeting cute animal pictures on Twitter.
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