Debut crime novel set in coastal Maine launches June 4
An author who once trapped lobsters when living on an island in Penobscot Bay is announcing the launch of his first crime novel. Thomas E. Ricks has written Everyone Knows But You, a tale of murder on the Maine coast, where an FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village. The rules are different in this remote corner of America – sometimes lethally so.
About Everyone Knows But You:
After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of a Native American reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coastal trades: hard drugs and rare fish. Many of the locals are happy to see that particular fisherman dead. What’s more, they are not shy about noting that Ryan must have screwed up badly to be posted to such a remote location as Bangor, Maine.
Undaunted, Ryan works to understand the unforgiving way of life on Liberty Island, where people live by an older, harsher code. Adrift on a sailboat one day, he encounters a man from the Malpense tribe, living as a hermit on a remote island, who witnessed something that fateful day.
The novel is due on the market June 4, 2024.
“New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks turns his literary talents to a land he knows deeply, from working in the Maine woods and trapping lobsters year-round,” said a news release. “Everyone Knows But You is a rich and dynamic crime novel that brings a unique area of America to vivid, thrilling life.”
Ricks is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 bestseller Fiasco, a history of the beginning of the Iraq War. As a reporter at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, he was a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. He worked in the Maine woods in his youth and trapped lobsters when living on an island in Penobscot Bay. He now divides his time between Texas and Maine.
