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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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Author Lisa Doucette has published "Fatty, You Broke My Tire Swing!", a children’s book drawn from a painful memory of her own childhood, through Christian Faith Publishing.
The story follows a young girl named Lisa who climbs onto a tire swing expecting an afternoon of fun. A fall and a cruel remark from another child instead leave her confused and hurt. With her sister’s help and her faith, she works through the experience and arrives at forgiveness.
Doucette is a wife, teacher, and mother of two sons who has said she experienced the incident firsthand as a child. "I experienced this hurtful event as a child, and rewriting this story with a redemptive ending has allowed me to truly forgive," she said in the announcement. "I believe that forgiveness is the way to heal, and I hope this book helps other children understand that truth."
The book is categorized as juvenile fiction and centers on themes of empathy, agency, and choosing one’s response to cruelty rather than controlling it. The publisher describes it as a tool for helping children navigate hurt and process it through kindness rather than retaliation.
"Fatty, You Broke My Tire Swing!" is available at bookstores and through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees value in children’s books that work from a real, specific memory rather than an invented scenario — that specificity is often what makes a book like this land with young readers rather than read as a generic moral lesson.
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Pamela B. Craig has released "Tears and a Tiara: A Testimony of Faith, Hope, and Love," a memoir recounting her family’s experience after her child was diagnosed with cancer, according to the publisher’s announcement. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing.
The announcement describes a family life upended by a diagnosis no parent expects to hear, and a narrative that follows the family through what the publisher calls heartache toward spiritual transformation. Craig frames the ordeal as a test of faith rather than only a medical crisis, according to the announcement, with the book positioned as both a personal testimony and an account meant to speak to readers facing their own hardship.
The title itself, pairing "tears" with "tiara," points to the book’s central tension: suffering alongside something the publisher’s description treats as a mark of grace or honor, a framing common in faith-based memoirs that cast a family’s hardest season as also a season of spiritual meaning.
Craig’s memoir joins a steady stream of personal narratives released through Christian Faith Publishing, which works with authors to bring faith-centered stories, often rooted in illness, loss, or caregiving, to print.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a durable category of faith-based memoir: narrow in audience, but consistently in demand among readers looking for first-person accounts of hardship read through a spiritual lens.
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