ALBIA

by Wood Way

Albia is a typical mid-western county seat town of four thousand people -- minus one. It is located near Iowa's biggest lake, and surrounded by other beautiful lakes and rivers, including the three small fish-filled ponds called Cottonwood Pits. When an early blizzard finally relinquishes what it is hiding, the area will never be the same again. The snow-covered secret not only rewrites the community's history, but determines its future as well -- and all the residents are affected. Zacharias Popek drives in to visit his favorite clergyman, only to find him in the hospital, and stumbles into a series of events which takes all of his deduction capabilities, plus his physical abilities, to solve the mysteries-while staying alive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Novelist Wood Way (Dr. Woodrow Wilson Way, PhD) is a man of many hats, a newspaper and magazine editor, manufacturing and publishing executive, collegiate instructor, riverboat captain, and author of many books and stories in all genres. He specializes in stories set in the various places with which he is familiar-either because he has resided there, or had many reasons to visit there-based somewhat on real events. He finds the underlying intrigues so fascinating that he has preserved some of the tales for posterity.

(2011, paperback, 122 pages)