Author Archives: williamdandrews

            After a much-longer-than-planned break, Julie Williamson is back at work.  The central figure in my three mystery novels (Stealing History, Breaking Ground, Mapping Murder), Julie returns in Finishing the Puzzles, just published by Maine Authors Publishing (http://indieauthorbooks.com/fiction/finishing-the-puzzles/).  As in … Continue reading →

When Kate Flora invited me to blog on this site a little over three years ago, I felt deeply honored to join so many excellent writers of Maine-based mysteries.  Indeed, I felt inadequate because I had published only three mysteries, … Continue reading →

This month many of us are re-posting earlier blogs.  The blog below, “Summer Visitors,” was written and posted at the end of the summer of 2019.  Below the re-posting I revisit the topic with some current thoughts.  Here’s the 2019 … Continue reading →

One of the many pleasures of having a 5-year old granddaughter is that my wife and I get to do fun things that we couldn’t as unaccompanied adults.  Last week our granddaughter took us to the new Children’s Museum and … Continue reading →

Sometime during the last century when I was a child, nothing pleased my sister and me more than coming upon a road construction project while in the car with our parents.  When we saw the first cautionary sign, we hoped … Continue reading →

Last February I wrote here about the pleasures of re-reading books, fiction and nonfiction, as a way of coping with the plague that kept us locked down and isolated.  I’m returning to one aspect of that theme today with a … Continue reading →

We live in a neighborhood of seasonal houses.  Most are owned by families from other New England states, especially Massachusetts.  Except for my nephew, who has the house next to ours, the owners are not really known to us.  They … Continue reading →

Today is the first anniversary of The Day the World Ended. On this day last year my wife and I drove to Salem to the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) to see its special exhibit of Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle,” several dozen … Continue reading →

Like many others in what is now nearly a year of plague-induced isolation, my wife and I spent many hours reading.  In normal times we read a lot.  I always have two books going at a time, alternating between one … Continue reading →

Many people who lived in the Delaware Valley (southeastern Pennsylvania, southwestern New Jersey, and the state of Delaware) in the 1980s and 1990s have a Joe Biden story.  Here’s mine.  In the early 1980s I was the dean of a … Continue reading →