Robin Yocum grew up in a small eastern Ohio town known as Brilliant. What remains of the place is still there but the glass factory that gave Brilliant a name closed down long ago. Brilliant has become just another one of those formerly prosperous Rust Belt communities.
Yocum remembers it well and he has set his novels in the little towns of his memories. In his latest, "A Brilliant Death," two young men are trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance and likely death of a woman who supposedly drowned in the Ohio River. She was the mother of one of these young men. She died when he was an infant.
He wants to know what happened? Who was his mother? Why did she go away? Why won't his father talk about her? A disgraced former detective who had investigated the original incident believes she was probably murdered.
Robin Yocum unspools threads of suspicion, hidden secrets, and determined sleuthing into a web of intrigue and subtle charm. In "A Brilliant Death," Yocum, who lives in the Columbus area, has spun a compelling yarn.
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