This is a shadowy tale of two women struggling to escape the dark side of their lives. 1936 was a dark year. It was a year in the depths of The Great Depression. Homelessness and unemployment were rampant, prompting clusters of shanty towns to spring up throughout America, dubbed “Hoovervilles” as an insult to out-of-favor President Herbert Hoover. In Portland, Oregon such a place was formed along the western banks of the Willamette River, north of the Ross Island Bridge, just a couple of blocks from the downtown business district.
Shadow Plots is the story of Sylvia, a disturbed young woman who lived in such a place, desperately searching for acceptance, love and her fantasy mother; and of 40-year-old Lizabet McNearney, a veteran investigative journalist who returns home to Portland from her post in Rome. While Liz investigates the alleged suicide of her brother, a Catholic priest, she is forced to relive in her mind a childhood bereft of love, filled with horror and shame. Her search leads her on the dark trail of a diabolic killer known only as “Death.”
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