Barn Burner - Paperback

by Debra Gaskill (Author)

Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio -but that's the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre's problems. The daughter of Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing - along with half a million dollars from the college's endowment fund. When Addison's own daughter Isabella, already suspended from school for assaulting a teacher, attempts suicide, Addison must come to terms with the real meaning of family secrets- her own and others.Barn Burner tackles the legacy of mental illness in a small town, the secrets everyone keeps-and the damages that all of those secrets can do. "Debra Gaskill's small town Jubilant Falls reads as true as Faulkner's Jefferson, Mississippi. And her deftly drawn characters enjoy equal depth and humanity. Addison MacIntyre engages the reader's respect and affection from the first page and, down to her nicotine stained fingers, Addison makes the reader long for her next crime to solve or mystery to unravel. Debra Gaskill's Addison MacIntyre series feels as real and true and unforgettable as Boo Radley's front porch."-Douglas Savage, author of the novels The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee (History Book Club main selection)Barn Burner is the first in a series of mysteries set in Jubilant Falls, Ohio and Addison McIntyre is the latest addition to the reporter/sleuth literary tradition.

Author Biography

Debra Gaskill is the former managing editor of the Washington Court House (Ohio) Record Herald. She has been an award-winning journalist for 20 years, writing for a number of Ohio newspapers covering the cops and courts beat, and the Associated Press, covering any stories thrown her way. She is currently a freelance journalist for three southwestern Ohio newspapers, still covering cops and courts. Gaskill's mysteries 'Barn Burner' (2009), 'The Major's Wife' (2010), and the latest, 'Lethal Little Lies' (2013) all center around crimes committed in the fictional small town Jubilant Falls, Ohio, and often center around the damage family secrets can do. 'The Major's Wife' received honorable mention in the 2011 Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards. A fourth book in the series, 'Murder on the Lunatic Fringe, ' will be published in early 2014. She and her husband Greg, a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, have two children and one grandson. They raise llamas and alpacas on their farm in Enon, Ohio. She blogs about her llamas, her writing and love of all things fiber on her blog, A Weaver of Tales, A Spinner of Yarns, at www.debragaskill.wordpress.com. You can also connect with her on Facebook and Twitter or on her website, www.debragaskillnovels.com