The Camera's Eye

Professional photographer, Veronica Lorimer, wakens to the sound of a rock crashing through the front window of the Puget Sound island retreat she shares with retired prosecuting attorney, Charlotte McAllister. As the attacks continue and worsen, the local police blame a local vagrant boy, but Veronica and Charlotte suspect the source may involve their own pasts and Veronica’s estranged family. As they get closer to the truth, a sudden discovery pitches their search toward tragedy. The Camera’s Eye, Judith Kirscht’s fi fth novel, was a fi nalist for the 2015 William Faulkner Wisdom Award and was short-listed for the 2016 Chanticleer Reviews’ Somerset Award. A previous novel, Home Fires, (New Libri Press) was a fi nalist for the Nancy Pearl Award (best mainstream novel published in 2013) and won an Honorable Mention in the Readers Favorite Contest, both in 2014. Both Home Fires and Hawkins Lane were fi nalists for Chanticleer Review’s’ Somerset Awards.. Originally from Chicago, Kirscht raised her family in Michigan and taught writing at the Universities of Michigan and California, Santa Barbara before moving to Washington State to devote herself to writing fi ction.