Laurie Engle Writer

Small town, secrets, messy families, and a main character who won't back down. Book One of The Hollow Creek Mysteries, The Body in the Bungalow-Start reading now at: https://amzn.to/48bxjt4

New England hides its best stories in plain sight.
These stone walls aren’t scenery. They’re evidence.
If you notice details like this, you’re my kind of reader.

If you are drawn to the details most people miss, join my Book Club-theres a bonus scene from my thriller No Safe Shore. HERE: https://subscribepage.io/w4VPru

Real life is stranger than fiction. That’s where my stories start.

If you notice details like this and immediately start building your backstory, you're probably my kind of reader.

Bad weather. Forced isolation. Bored, brilliant minds trapped indoors.�In 1816, a villa above Lake Geneva became the accidental birthplace of Frankenstein.
No plan. No outline. Just a sleepless night and a terrifying vision that refused to let go.�Proof that some stories aren’t written. They happen to you.
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There’s a place on Cape Cod where time disappears.
The dune shacks aren’t about comfort.�They’re about listening to wind, to silence, and the stories places keep.
If you like mysteries rooted in real life, you’ll like what I’m writing next.

I cut this scene from No Safe Shore.
Not because it wasn’t good.
Because it told too much, too soon.
It’s the moment Jess first meets Lucas.
The backstory I loved.
The one that had to go so the tension could breathe.
I’m sharing that deleted scene privately with my readers.
If you like quiet dread, complicated relationships, and stories that feel a little too real, you’ll want to read it.
The link in my bio will take you straight there.

So much fun celebrating this season in Georgetown on the square!