The Camera's Eye

Professional photographer, Veronica Lorimer, wakens to the sound of a rock

crashing through the front window of the Puget Sound island retreat she

shares with retired prosecuting attorney, Charlotte McAllister. As the attacks

continue and worsen, the local police blame a local vagrant boy, but

Veronica and Charlotte suspect the source may involve their own pasts and

Veronica’s estranged family. As they get closer to the truth, a sudden discovery

pitches their search toward tragedy.

The Camera’s Eye, Judith Kirscht’s fi fth novel, was a fi nalist for the 2015

William Faulkner Wisdom Award and was short-listed for the 2016 Chanticleer

Reviews’ Somerset Award. A previous novel, Home Fires, (New Libri

Press) was a fi nalist for the Nancy Pearl Award (best mainstream novel

published in 2013) and won an Honorable Mention in the Readers Favorite

Contest, both in 2014. Both Home Fires and Hawkins Lane were fi nalists for

Chanticleer Review’s’ Somerset Awards..

Originally from Chicago, Kirscht raised her family in Michigan and taught

writing at the Universities of Michigan and California, Santa Barbara before

moving to Washington State to devote herself to writing fi ction.