Charlene Langfur

The SAMANTHA PAPERS is a literary mystery about Samantha Howe,how she rethinks her life at the same time as she solves a mystery forced on her by her husband, a defense attorney. It takes place in New Jersey, New York City, Key West, St. Marten.

The story is moved forward by a stream of consciousness narrative and references to a journal that has disappeared. The story is in part about how intelligence sometimes keeps people from moving forward, especially in families. Unhappy families are not all alike. This one isn't. Secrets and lies run deep, become habit.

Another message of the book is about persistence, how the need for love transforms people. Samantha fights the emptiness of a difficult marriage and in the throes of a murder and family betrayal, she fights to find her way to a new way of living.A second Samantha Howe mystery will follow.