Local Aptos author Cathryn Grant has just released her eighth Suburban Noir novel, Alone On the Beach – The Haunted Ship Trilogy Book One, and she’ll be signing her book at the Holiday Faire at the Aptos Community United Methodist Church on November 28, 9am to 3pm. Her novels are also available at Bookshop Santa Cruz, on Amazon.com, and at other independent bookstores.

Using the concrete ship and the beaches in Aptos as the setting, Grant’s novel tells the story of Mary Carmichael, a 91-year-old woman who as a child watched the ship being towed in and over the years has become convinced it is haunted. When she befriends young Corrine Dunning, who is feeling paranoid about her boyfriend’s past, Mary senses it is the entity from the ship that is trying to make a home in Corrine’s mind. Mary knows that a ghost that haunts the human mind is the most terrifying of all.

Cathryn Grant’s psychological suspense fiction reveals the motives and desires that lead to suburban crime. Her Suburban Noir novels, ghost stories, and short fiction have been described as “making the mundane menacing”.

For more information about Alone On the Beach, please visit www.SuburbanNoir.com or Contact Cathryn at 831-612-6935.

Cathryn is the author of seven other novels: The Demise of the Soccer Moms, Buried By Debt, The Suburban Abyss, The Hallelujah Horror Show, Getting Ahead, Faceless, and An Affair With God. She’s also the author of the eleven novellas in the Madison Keith Ghost Story series. Grant’s short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazines, and the Shroud Quarterly Journal.