William Andrews
Location: Portland, Maine
ISLANDPORT PRESS:
Stealing History
By: William D. Andrews
ABOUT THE BOOK: “She felt she needed to give herself the proverbial pinch to see if this was real. A week ago she was packing up her apartment in Delaware in preparation for the move. Now she was in Ryland, Maine, the director of the Ryland Historical Society. A real place, a real job. It felt like a dream.”
Just a few days into her new job as director of a busy historical society and museum nestled in the mountains of quaint Ryland, Maine, flatlander Julie Williamson discovers all is not as it should be. Her dream job is more of a nightmare.
She expected to find an eccentric board of trustees, a cool reception from the assistant director who had wanted her job, and a necessary adjustment to small-town life, but she didn't expect that some of the museum’s most valuable artifacts, including a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Hannibal Hamlin, would quickly turn up missing. And, when a murder hits especially close to home for Julie, she becomes embroiled in an ever-widening and complex mystery.
Stealing History is sure to enthrall readers who love to curl up with a good mystery, especially one that weaves details of small town life, delightful characters and history into a suspenseful tale that keeps them guessing up until the last page.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William D. Andrews spent summers in Maine with his family for 18 years until he could find a job to justify a permanent move. That happened in 1989 when he became president of Westbrook College in Portland. The merger of Westbrook and the University of New England freed him to pursue a lifelong interest in writing, supplemented by freelance editing and consulting for nonprofit organizations. He has published three textbooks on management communication. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.
He divides his time now between his homes in Newry and Portland. He served as a trustee of the Bethel Historical Society and remains active in it and in the Mahoosuc Land Trust. He reads, skies, snowshoes, cooks, plays tennis, and observes rural life and local characters.
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