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The latest novel from bestselling author Daniel Hecht, The Body Below is a thrilling mystery about family, responsibility, and consequences.Connor Whitman's life has taken on a pleasant rhythm, one that has been hard won after finally getting sober and putting in his time as a journalist at the local paper. One of the things that keeps him sane is long solo swims in the mountain lakes around his home--until he encounters something below the surface that chills him to the bone.Things get more complicated when the missing persons case Connor has been following at work turns personal--the woman who vanished is Connor's estranged sister, under a different name. With two nieces caught in the middle, and Connor himself walking the edge between suspect and next of kin, discovering what really happened--and what he found beneath the lake--seems like an impossible task.
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I was born into an artist's community founded in 1946 by my parents and their friends in the wilds of Westchester County, N.Y. Surrounded by these individualistic yet communalistic bohemians, I saw artists in every discipline working their magic, and could not help but follow in their footsteps. I've lived all over the U.S. and have worked at every kind of job to make ends meet, and I enjoy the labor of body and hands as much as the effort of the mind. Mailman, logger, carpenter, musician, musical instrument builder, graphic designer, apple picker, farmhand, nonprofit organizational director, college administrator, educator -- the great thing about a checkered past is that you see the world from a lot of perspectives. This is the best education for a writer!I have lived in Vermont for many years, have three kids and several cats, am active on behalf of environmental causes, and am highly reclusive.
