Home News by JD Solomon

A summer haven for the wealthy, Bay Shore has magnificent waterfront homes, luxury hotels, a grand vaudeville theater, an acclaimed yacht club, a famous racetrack, and even a movie studio. But as the small town edges past its prime, all is not well in Bay Shore.

With the ten-year anniversary of the Armistice just weeks away, a trouble-prone veteran goes missing. At the struggling local newspaper, a cub reporter is desperate to get off the obituary beat, and the financially strapped publisher is hatching a scheme to boost revenue quickly. Meanwhile, one of Bay Shore’s leading citizens must run a last, risky operation for a notorious bootlegger, and a battle-scarred cop is investigating a mystery that no one wants solved.

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JD Solomon is a retired editor and marketing consultant who lives in New Jersey with his wife, Maureen Tinen, and dogs, Charlie and Gus. He grew up in Bay Shore and began his career in journalism as a cub reporter at a small-town newspaper near Fitchburg, Mass., mainly writing obituaries and Home News items. 

Also by JD Solomon:

The Tinen Killings, A Novel of Civil War Veterans

Overcoming Macular Degeneration: A Guide to Seeing Beyond the Clouds