Prison Novels

Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she has never experienced before, one ruled by enigmatic codes of honor, ceaseless aggression and absolutely savage violence.

The monster storm "Bernardine" did more than devastate the tiny Gulf Coast community of Belle Ville.
It uncovered suppressed evidence that exonerates a man wrongly imprisoned for murder.

1995 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel. After spending fifteen years in prison for a crime he had not committed, Eddie Nye is released and suddenly finds himself adjusting to the strange world outside prison, confronting his past, and coping with complex relationships with those around him.