Link to Suzy Witten's "Guest Author" essay "The Collective Ghosts of Salem" on Historical Novelist Mitchell James Kaplan's ("By Fire, By Water") website:
http://www.mitchelljameskaplan.com/home/visits-with-authors-artists-and-other-friends
Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead.
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a