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Michael Saver’s Lost Village is a striking, ambitious debut, reaching well beyond the familiar borders of a murder mystery. The first in The Conawalki Murder Mysteries series, Saver’s novel transcends genres, just as it does time. Set in 1973 in the small “replacement village” of Conawalki—a town rebuilt after the original was flooded during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway—the novel immediately hooks the reader with its haunting premise, when two horrific murders shatter the village. Saver uses this history of displacement beautifully, exploring how a community tries desperately to reconstruct not just its streets and homes, but also its shared identity. The result is a supernatural coming-of-age mystery steeped in atmosphere, memory, and collective trauma.
Fashioning her grief into a voice that is raw, empathetic, and always engaging, Romoff offers soulful explorations of her formative experiences and brutally honest reflections of the people involved. Friends, ex-boyfriends, clients—no one is exempt from this author’s candid, witty chronicling, least of all herself. Armed with a sense of style to rival Carrie Bradshaw and a fierce determination to keep going at all costs, Hyams Romoff also addresses the stigmas surrounding “career women,” including pregnancy, and what it really means to “have it all.” Hyams Romoff writes with the precision of a publicist and the vulnerability of a survivor—each page both polished and painfully true.
