By Tanya Carter
Shelf Life
Work in Progress
A brutal attack on a local grocery store owner in the fictional town of Edison, Pennsylvania, sends shock waves through the community and tests the bonds that hold the town together. Long-held secrets are exposed, testing the character of many of the town’s residents, including the new Chief of Police, Jake Keenan; Lucas Harmon, a veteran who has moved back home to find some elusive peace; Jackson Wagner, a neurodivergent teenager; and Piper Jones, a young woman who is trying to keep her family organic farm alive while shelving her dream of a career in music. Through shifting points of view, the novel presents a town in flux that nevertheless defends its essential humanity against the mayhem that threatens it.
Anne Lamott suggests that the very best novels remind us of the ways in which we take care of one another.Tanya Carter’s novel, “Shelf Life,” does exactly this, and then some.
Literary Suspense Novelist
Tanya Carter
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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Half Life
Suspense
It is fall in Edison, the season when the leaf peepers come to town and the Scout troops are hiking in the woods. Police Chief Jake Keenan is called to a grisly scene–an unidentified vagrant with his chest cavity torn open has been left in a shallow grave. Who is he, and who is leaving mutilated bodies in the Westmoreland County countryside?
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Musings
November Snowfall
We spent Thanksgiving week in Cook Forest State Park. I took my laptop but did exactly no writing while I was there. I did a lot of knitting though, which was relaxing. We had the first real snowfall of the season while we were there as well. The woods beside the...
October Writing Retreat
In October a friend of mine invited me to join her on a short trip up to her family cottage near Lake Erie. It was a wonderful reset and refresh for me to get back into heavy-duty editing and rewriting after a significant amount of time spent on other projects. It has...
What I’m researching
The novel I am working on, Shelf Life, includes a situation where a family farm is being seized in an eminent domain purchase by the state, to facilitate construction of a highway. Researching eminent domain sales is fascinating, more so because I am not at the mercy...
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