Byline: Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

She’s got the cred for sure: a third-generation newspaper veteran with more than three decades of her own daily newspaper reporting and editing (including some 25 years at the New Hampshire Union Leader and regular contributions to Manchester Ink Link)  Milliken always wanted to write fiction drawn from her journalism days, and she hit her stride in 2015 when her series starring Bernadine “Bernie” O’Dea took flight.  With wry humor, twisty mystery plots, a bit of engaging romance, and a cast of utterly engaging human (and canine) characters, Milliken creates a world of delightful escapist fare.

Author and newsman Joe McQuaid has plunged into this high-stakes endeavor at least twice – the first time in 2021 when he wrote a book for his family about his late wife Signe Anderson McQuaid, and then last year when he published “War Fronts Home Fires: A WWII correspondent’s remarkable coverage, his wife’s Indomitable spirit,” (IngramSpark, 2023). This book is about his war-correspondent father, Bernard John “B.J.” McQuaid, and his mother, Margaret “Peg” Griffin McQuaid, who did the heavy lifting back home in Candia with their children.