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Thanks to Andrea Miller for a wonderful review in the June 2010 edition of M Food & Culture. “Maier writes an intriguing and mysterious page-turner full of deceit, murder, trickery and scandal while coupling it with accounts of love, drama, humor and romance all intertwined to leave you wanting more… The formal, yet relaxed style of writing allowed a perfect progression with...
read more“You kept me glued to the very end –what a great read!” – Bill (Dr. C) Cummings. “Excellent, excellent, excellent.” – Tanzel Rousey. … plus a lot of verbal praise
read moreI keep working on my ‘elevator speech’ for when people ask, “What’s the book about?” Orange Terrace is a fictional thriller about Sam, a straw man who tries to buy a row of old houses on Orange Terrace to expand the hospital. The combative owners include an old guy with a mortally bad back, a house full of ne’er-do-well college boarders, an old grouch who is so mad that he might...
read moreThe characters and events in Orange Terrace are completely fictional, but I tried to use as many real places as possible. The houses exist (see previous blog post), though I took a bit of liberty in how they sit together in a row. I believe, but don’t know for sure, that developers have tried to replace the houses on the east side of Orange Terrace with structures related to the...
read moreBelow: The row of homes from the Orange Terrace and Spring St. intersection Below: Norman’s house Below: Burger and Pruitt houses Below: Pruitt and Holt houses Below: Johnston and Waters houses Below: parking deck behind...
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