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An Indie Next Pick Chicago 1931. Asta Eicher, newly widowed mother of three, receives seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers who promises to cherish, protect, and ultimately marry her and care for her and her children. Weeks later, all four Eichers are found dead in West Virginia. Emily Thornhill, one of Chicago?s few women journalists, goes to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the tragedy herself.



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Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer. Phillips graduated from West Virginia University, earning a B.A. in 1974, and later graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Phillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University. She is currently Professor of English and Founder/Director of the Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. In 1976, Truck Press published her first short story collection Sweethearts, for which Phillips earned a Pushcart Prize. Lark & Termite, her fourth novel, published in 2009, was selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction. Phillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Phillips and her husband, Dr. Mark Stockman, have two sons.



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