Providence Perdition

Gloria H. Giroux

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1977. Disco was blasting across the airwaves and the Bee Gees and Donna Summer reigned supreme. Jimmy Carter assumed the presidency after the debacle of the Nixon administration. Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit movie screens and birthed a new exploration of cinematic science fiction while Saturday Night Fever became the biggest dancing movie of all time. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock & Roll, died at age 42. Egypt and Israel made significant progress in peace talks. Serial killer David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, was captured in New York while another infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy, was still cutting a swath of murders across the country. People were still adjusting to the end of the Vietnam war and looking forward to a new prosperity and social stability.
In Providence, Rhode Island, private investigator and Scottish expatriate Nick MacKenzie is inexplicably drawn into a crime mystery when two skeletons fall out of a demolished old house and an investigation opens that reaches back to the era of the Great Depression and Prohibition. As Nick digs deeper into the crime, he uncovers evidence that that takes on a personal meaning. Along the way he acquires new and very unexpected friends as well as an enemy that will do anything to keep the past hidden, even kill. Through strange circumstances Nick also acquires a young foster son with a hidden past.
As the mysteries and discoveries progress Nick and his circle become not only fast friends but an odd sort of family that redefines the very concept. He is joined by a gung-ho cop whose professional aspirations take a shocking turn; an elderly man who knows more than he’s saying about the lynchpin year of 1933; an old woman who is far more than she presents to the world; a scion of a mob family that seeks to forge a decent future; and a young lawyer whose personal demons lead him to an unexpected life path.
As the end games of the mysteries count down to their climaxes, the only question is – who will survive, and at what cost?

Sujets

• Great Depression
• Murder
• Prohibition
• Providence
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663253750
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

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Providence Perdition
BOOK THREE OF THE NEW ENGLAND SERIES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gloria H. Giroux
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


PROVIDENCE PERDITION BOOK THREE OF THE NEW ENGLAND SERIES
 
Copyright © 2023 Gloria H. Giroux.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5374-3 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023910968
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 06/13/2023
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Epilogue

 
 
 
 
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This book is dedicated to my parents, George and Helen.
Daddy – I wish I knew you better. So much I’d want to ask you.
Mom – Mom, Dad, Best Friend, Brother, Sister, Cheerleader, Chief Cook, Taskmaster, Light in the Darkness, Occasional Annoyance, and pretty much the architect of my life. Thank you for being the oak tree to my acorn and showing me how to make my dreams come true. I hope I’ve made you proud.



“The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.”
—John Updike
New England is comprised of six states in the farthest northeastern region of the United States: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. In terms of size, they range in the lower 25% of percentages, and include the smallest state in the Union:
STATE
SIZE
RANK
SIZE (SQ. MILES)
CAPITAL
STATE #/ DATE
Maine
39
35,385
Augusta
23: 03/15/1820
Massachusetts
44
10,565
Boston
6: 02/06/1788
Vermont
45
9,616
Montpelier
14: 03/04/1791
New Hampshire
46
9,349
Concord
9: 06/21/1788
Connecticut
48
5,567
Hartford
5: 01/09/1788
Rhode Island
50
1,214
Providence
13: 05/29/1790
 
TOTAL
71,696
 
 
 
In terms of proportional size, four New Englands could fit into the state of Texas. The region borders the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island Sound, Canada, and New York.
The earliest inhabitants of New England were not the European colonists but the Native Americans that lived there for many hundreds of years. The region was populated with many diverse tribes including the Abenakis, Mi’kmag, Penobscot, Pequots, Mohegans, Narragansetts, Pocumtucks, Androscoggin, and Wampanoag.
Population-wise, New England began burgeoning in the 17 th century. The regional economy grew rapidly in the 17 th century, thanks to heavy immigration, high birth rates, low death rates, and an abundance of inexpensive farmland. The population grew from 3,000 in 1630 to 14,000 in 1640; 33,000 in 1660; 68,000 in 1680; and 91,000 in 1700. Between 1630 and 1643, about 20,000 Puritans arrived, settling mostly near Boston; after 1643, fewer than 50 immigrants arrived per year. The average size of a family between 1660-1700 was 7.1 children; the birth rate was 49 babies per year per thousand people; and the death rate was about 22 deaths per year per thousand people. About 27% of the population was composed of men between 16 and 60 years old. Currently, New England boasts a population of over fifteen million.
The etymology of each state’s name found its source either in names associated with the first colonists or the Native American tribes already occupying the land that someday soon would no longer be theirs. This stands true of many towns, which share their etymology with names derived mainly from Great Britain.
STATE
ORIGIN
MEANING
Maine
Indeterminate
There is no definitive explanation for the origin of the name “Maine,” but the most likely is that early explorers named it after the former province of Maine in France . Another theory generally held among British place-name scholars is that Mayne in Dorset is Brythonic , corresponding to modern Welsh “maen,” plural “main” or “meini.”
Vermont
French
French explorer Samuel de Champlain claimed the area around Lake Champlain for France and named it Vert Mont, or “Green Mountain.”
New Hampshire
English
Captain John Mason named the colony after the English county of Hampshire, one of the first Saxon shires.
Massachusetts
Algonquian
Plural name for the Algonquian native people who lived around the bay, from Algonquian Massachusett, “at the large hill,” in reference to Great Blue Hill, southwest of Boston.
Connecticut
Mohegan-Pequot
Quinnitukqut: “at the long tidal river.”
Rhode Island
Dutch Explorer Adrian Block
He named it “Roodt Eylandt” meaning “red island” in reference to the red clay that lined the shore. The name was later anglicized when the region came under British rule.
 
The history of New England revolves around the first colonists coming to the new world and settling in what became the Massachusetts coast and spreading out north, west, and south. In 1620 the Pilgrims set anchor at Plymouth, formerly found and named by Captain John Smith. The group of Puritan Separatists was initially known as the Brownist Emigration, who came to be known as the Pil