Paul Winslow: A Novel (1916)

This is a love storyaand a story of child abuse, incest, and murder. Determined to forge a new life, Sandra SantaAngelo leaves Boston and her abusive father to find employment in a small Connecticut town. Itas rare in 1932 for a woman to be employed in a police station, even as a secretary, and Sandra takes every opportunity to abandon her typewriter and instead solve the murder of an altar boy. A second boy is found bludgeoned to death. Sandra enlists the help of her friend Pierra, a neighborhood child, and even her robust landlady to find the culprit. In her quest, she finds love and several delightful candidates to replace the mother sheas never known. Greenwichas fear explodes as two little girls are abducted and a priest dies. Only Sandraas hellish memories can see behind the everyday mask of a child molester, but who will believe her? With tenacity, curiosity, and courage, she confronts the devil that terrorizes the souls of innocents.