"The Diary of a Northern Moon reviewed by J. Alpha-US Review of Books.

"The heavenly farm was a focal point of a yet much bigger mystery.   She needed to know who was Ben Waldron?" 

"The Diary of a Northern Moon, like all such narratives, holds a good dose of truth," writes Gloria Waldron Hukle in the forward to her second novel of three books in the Waldron series, which began with Manhattan-Seeds of the Big Apple.  A good dose of truth is diffinitely a plus in historical narratives, and Gloria Waldron Hukle-and llth generation Waldron and native resident of New York State-opens her historical 20th Century novel with a dedication to Carol Waldron Thomas and her devotion to Waldron genealogy and the Waldron Family Crest.  There is also a clearly written preface, establishing the story's rich setting in the "hidden wooded slopes of northern New York's Adirondack Mountain Region."

Tena Waldron is a successful 26-year old advertising executive at the crossroads of her life, who seeks to unravel truths about her father, Ben Waldron, a man she had barely known. Her dreamlike journey leads her through her ancestral past in the Adirondack town of North Creek.  Along the way, with a well-plotted series of story events and a touch of romance, Hukle successfully lures readers inito also trying to discover who exactly was Ben Waldron-the "very active ghost' who has "resurrected" inside of Tena, as she sets out to uncover the long held secret elements of her Dutch ancestors.

Establishing contemporary relevance in a story built around the lives of people who arrived in America over 300 years ago is a narriative challenge that Hukle tackles with a theme of "new beginnings."  It is a universal theme that not only defines the lives and aspirations of the people in the century leading up to America's Industrial Revolution, but also resonates with a contemporary sensibility of a new American era today.

Murder, mystery, and romance...what more could readers seeking a good dose of fictional truth want?  Well, good writing, of course, and Gloria Waldron Hukle delivers that too in The Diary of a Northern Moon.

(Meet Author Gloria Waldron Hukle Author's Night, August ll at Hoss's Country Corner -Long Lake, New York)