John Pesta

• Feb-2011
• / Mystery
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The following review of SAFELY BURIED was provided by Kirkus. Veteran journalist turned mystery author Pesta explores an extensive network of crime in a supposedly bucolic countryside. Small-town newspaper editor Phil Larrison knows better than to pi...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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The Collinsville town board is unhappy with two old men who refuse to hook up their house to the municipal sewer system. And the old men are upset because the "communists" in the town hall want them to stop using the privy they have used al...

• Nov-2016
• / Mystery
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Small-town newspaper editor Phil Larrison gets tangled up in another mystery in the picturesque hills, or knobs, of southern Indiana.

This time Phil, who first appeared in Safely Buried, gets involved with seventeen-year-old Kelly Marcott, whose...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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In the tradition-bound 1950s, a young woman wants her freedom. Her husband wants her back. And their son is searching for himself.The time and place is Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1955. Lorene, a young mother who married too early, sets out to reinve...

• May-2020
• / General Fiction
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A little boy who thinks he can speak with bees. A man haunted for life by a childhood secret. A woman's obsession with her husband's obsession with pin-up models. In this anthology collecting a lifetime of short-story writing, John Pesta tells deeply...