MARIETTA, GA - Pamela Pease laces up her sneakers for a walk around pristine Lake Compton, a daily ritual as predictable as the sunrise. This morning, however, the sun rose on an empty cabin. Her disappearance is a stone thrown into the still water of a wealthy Connecticut enclave, and the ripples reach far beyond the missing person’s report. In Arthur Day’s compelling new novel, Death at Dawn: LGBTQ Meets Main Street, a straightforward mystery fractures into an intimate excavation of a family’s poisoned legacy, where the search for one woman exposes all hidden truth others have killed to keep buried.
The official investigation, led by the methodical Sheriff John Buckmaster, finds only dead ends and a neighbor’s report of a single, chilling scream. But Pam’s absence pulls others into the vortex: her ex-husband Mike McCaal, a man grappling with the unresolved embers of their past; Dianne Vargas, a real estate agent with a formidable spirit and her own guarded history; and a cast of relatives and acquaintances whose surfaces begin to crack under pressure. As they probe, they discover that Pam’s life was a palimpsest—a calm present written over a turbulent, scandal-ridden past involving her financier father, a decades-old suicide, and whispers of monstrous acts.
This is a novel deeply concerned with the selves we conceal to survive on Main Street. Day moves beyond stereotype, crafting authentic characters like Dianne, whose journey and strength are integral to the plot’s fabric, not a sidebar. The tension builds not from car chases, but from stifled confessions in quiet rooms, from the dread in a recovered envelope, and from the terrifying realization that the most dangerous monsters are the ones history has politely forgotten.
Death at Dawn is a sophisticated, character-driven thriller. It is about the prisons of expectation, the violent cost of secrets, and the haunting question of how well we can ever truly know another person—or ourselves. Arthur Day writes with the patience of a seasoned storyteller, layering past and present until the shocking culmination arrives with both inevitability and profound emotional force.
For readers who crave substance with their suspense, this book delivers a resonant exploration of identity, vengeance, and the relentless pull of family blood, all set against a backdrop of deceptively tranquil New England beauty.
Death at Dawn: LGBTQ Meets Main Street is now available for purchase in paperback, hardcover and e-book formats on Amazon. Uncover the truth buried by the water.
About the Author
Arthur Day is an author who masterfully explores the fissures in everyday life. With precise prose and deep psychological insight, he builds worlds where suspense is woven from the secrets people keep and the courage it takes to face them.
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