strength, and challenge their beliefs and integrity—people who would do almost anything to protect the people they love.
Richards’s new novel, Where Secrets Live, was a finalist in the Mystery/Suspense category of the 2018 Daphne du Maurier contest.
[My Book, The Movie: Where Secrets Live; The Page 69 Test: Where Secrets Live; Q&A with S. C. Richards]
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she has lived throughout the Midwest and currently resides in Northern Minnesota. She also spent several years in the Pacific Northwest, moving back to Minnesota to be closer to her family. Every winter she wonders what the hell she was thinking.
At CrimeReads Richards tagged five favorite books in which the "author has created that balance in the relationships among the characters that move the story forward, that drive their actions, and ultimately, what makes me care about each person in the novel." One title on the list:
Past Crimes, by Glen Erik HamiltonRead about another novel on the list.
Past Crimes is the first book in the Van Shaw series.
When Van’s grandfather, Dono, a career criminal and the man who raised him, calls him home unexpectedly, Van knows somethingvery serious is going on. Dono never asked for help.
Upon his arrival, Van finds his grandfather beaten and unconscious in his house. And as Dono fights for his life in the hospital, Van sets out to find the person responsible for bludgeoning the old man. The story weaves the past and the present together to show the strength of the love between a stubborn old man and the grandson who rebelled against him.
Although, we never meet Dono, we know him intimately through the grandson who is willing to go to any lengths for his grandfather as he seeks to discover what had been going on in the old man’s life that brought him to this place.
--Marshal Zeringue
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