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Christopher Mirabile Sends Police Chief Silas Lopez Back to Cape Cod in “The Holdfast”
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Christopher Mirabile has published "The Holdfast," the second novel in his Silas Lopez mystery series, following a police chief transplanted from the American Southwest to the seaside town of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The book picks up with an elderly homeowner’s death that initially looks natural but isn’t. According to the announcement, Lopez’s investigation uncovers fraudulent paperwork, corporate shells and illicit property transactions reaching into the fabric of the Cape Cod community he now polices. The publisher describes the novel as pairing procedural suspense with a broader look at integrity, loyalty and what makes a place worth defending.
Lopez, a former ranch hand recast as a small-town police chief, is a recurring device for Mirabile: a protagonist whose Western values clash with the unfamiliar customs of a New England coastal setting. The author has said the character grew out of his own time in the Southwest and years hiking the Cape Cod National Seashore, and that dual geography shapes both books in the series.
Rather than pursuing formal creative writing training, Mirabile arrived at fiction through careers in law and business. He’s a magna cum laude English graduate of Colgate University who trained as a lawyer at Boston College, then spent decades as an attorney, executive and startup investor before writing six nonfiction books. "The Holdfast" continues the fiction turn he made with the first Silas Lopez novel. He lives in Provincetown itself, the setting for the series, with his wife and three dogs.
"The Holdfast" is published by Slack Tide Press and distributed by Bublish, Inc., and is out now in eBook ($4.99), paperback ($19.99) and hardcover ($29.99) through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other major retailers. Early trade notices, including from BookLife by Publishers Weekly and Reader Views, have described it as a well-constructed mystery that escalates tension while maintaining the procedural authenticity that anchored the first book.
Studio CarryOnHarry will be curious whether Lopez’s fish-out-of-water premise deepens into something more particular to Provincetown’s real estate and preservation pressures over the course of the series, rather than functioning mainly as a mystery backdrop.
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An author writing under the name A Walker in His Shoes has published "Heartbeat of a Schizophrenic and Other Ailments," a book that draws on personal experience with mental illness to explore what the author describes as the intersection of mental health challenges and spiritual awakening. It’s published through Fulton Books and is listed by the publisher as a poetry work.
According to the announcement, the author traces his path to the book back to his childhood as, in his account, the youngest member of a broken family who learned early to listen rather than participate. That habit of quiet attention, he says, carried into his studies at the University at Buffalo, where coursework in the English department’s engagement with questions of the soul left him grappling with ideas he wasn’t fully prepared for. The announcement states that this period coincided with the onset of the mental health struggles that became the basis for the book.
"Through my journey with schizophrenia and other ailments, I came to realize that my breakdown was simultaneously a breakthrough," the author said in the announcement. "This work is my effort to express that contradiction—to acknowledge the pain of adversity while recognizing human perseverance."
A listing for the book describes it as an account of mental illness colliding with spiritual awakening, framed around blurred lines between logic and intuition and around the memory of unrequited love. The publisher describes the work as offering recognition to readers who have navigated similar struggles, though that’s the publisher’s framing of the book’s effect rather than a claim this desk can verify firsthand.
The book is available through Fulton Books’ website and through major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry is generally cautious about books that use serious, specific diagnoses like schizophrenia as a literary or spiritual metaphor, and we’d want to know more about how the author himself frames that distinction before treating the book as either memoir or metaphor.
Studio CarryOnHarry Perspective
The detail about English coursework on questions of the soul deserves attention because it names something many readers won’t have considered: the particular vulnerability that can emerge when academic study of meaning collides with an unprepared mind. This isn’t about blame toward universities or literature itself, but about the real tension between intellectual exploration and psychological readiness—a question that rarely surfaces in publishing discourse.
In practical terms, this matters when someone encounters dense philosophical or spiritual reading during a formative period without adequate support structures. A student might find themselves wrestling with existential questions through Romantic poetry or philosophy, internalizing those frameworks deeply, at precisely the moment their own mental health is destabilizing. The intensity that makes great literature powerful can become destabilizing when internalized without grounding.
The article doesn’t clarify whether the author experienced symptoms before or during his coursework, or how directly the coursework may have shaped—rather than simply coincided with—his crisis. That timing distinction matters considerably when framing a breakdown as also a breakthrough, because it changes whether the spiritual language is retrospective interpretation or part of the original episode.
The most useful way to read this origin story may not be as "literature caused his breakdown" or "his breakdown revealed truth that literature teaches," but as evidence that how we frame our formative struggles depends heavily on what language and tradition we find available to us after the fact. His English education gave him the vocabulary to make meaning from chaos—which is genuinely valuable. Whether that vocabulary matches what actually happened is a separate question.
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Garphil "Geechie Dan" Bowles has published "Tears Of A Goon," the concluding installment of a three-book series following Special K., a young woman drawn back into a family war she thought was over. Studio CarryOnHarry received an announcement about the release, published through Fulton Books.
The novel picks up as adversaries whom Special K.’s father Ruthless and uncle Zoomlock thought they had eliminated return seeking revenge. The narrative reveals that the two men failed to recognize the true threat they faced, and it falls to Special K. to be the last of her family left standing.
Bowles writes from a background he’s been open about in promotional material for the series: spent thirty years in and out of prison through eight separate incarcerations before what he describes as a turn toward faith and reinvention. He grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma, and has said that history shapes the street narratives running through all three books.
"This work marks both the conclusion of Special K.’s narrative and an examination of redemption," Bowles said in the announcement. "I’ve lived these streets, served these sentences, and found grace where none seemed possible. Through this trilogy, I wanted readers to understand that no one is beyond transformation."
The publisher describes the book as pairing street-level tension with character development, built around the question of whether Special K. can outrun a legacy of violence or whether finishing the fight means giving something up herself. "Tears Of A Goon" is available now through Fulton Books’ website, Amazon, Apple iTunes Store, Google Play, and Barnes and Noble.
For Studio CarryOnHarry, what stands out here isn’t the plot mechanics but the author’s own arc feeding directly into the fiction — a trilogy closer that’s as much about Bowles’s account of his own transformation as it is about Special K.’s survival.
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