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Jessica Menotti is frightened by a recurrent dream in which she’s chased through a maze by an unseen assailant. Hoping to escape the fears, she moves to Niagara Falls and takes a job as an Assistant District Attorney. Soon, though, she seems to be running through a real-life maze.Called by Detective Mulroney to oversee the collection of evidence at a murder scene, Jessica is panicked when she sees an old yellow building then is startled by old bones dug up and a strange ring in the grave. It’s the first time she’s seen any of this, yet her instinct is to run from that place. At the same time, though she’s just met Mulroney she feels drawn to him as to someone she’s loved for years. Love, fear, where are these feelings coming from? Certainly not from any experience in this life.When she is assigned a case involving drug smugglers, that maze dream and her sense of dread at the crime scene come into focus. Struggling to understand her sense of déjà vu leads to a vision of her death in a past life… and maybe her death in this one as well.

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Formerly a Manhattan entertainment attorney and a contributing editor to the quarterly art magazine SunStorm Fine Art, Susan Lynn Solomon now lives in Niagara Falls, New York, the setting of many of her stories.  

Since 2007 her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. These stories include, Abigail Bender (awarded an Honorable Mention in a short romance competition), Ginger Man, Elvira, The Memory Tree, Going Home, Reunion, Yesterday's Wings, Smoker's Lament, Kaddish, and Sabbath (nominated for the 2013 Best of the Net). A collection of her short stories, Voices In My Head, has been released by Solstice Publishing. 

Susan Solomon is also the author of the Emlyn Goode Mysteries. A finalist in M&M's Chanticleer's Mystery & Mayhem Novel Contest, and a finalist for the 2016 Book Excellence Award, her first Emlyn Goode Mystery novel, The Magic of Murder, has received rave reviews, as has the novelette, Bella Vita, and the novel, Dead Again, which is a finalist for the 2017 McGrath House Indie Book of the Year Award.

What’s Past Is Prologue

By

Susan Lynn Solomon

Review 

By

Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews

First, I want to thank Susan Lynn Solomon for this book so I may bring you this review.

WNY Author Susan Lynn Solomon is back with this incredible read in What’s Past Is Prologue. This time around it is a criminal case with a very unique twist to it.

Susan would like to dedicate this book to Michael and Cheryl Ingino. During this difficult time they are there for others and show kindness in what they do.

Living in Buffalo, NY one thing I appreciate in Susan’s writing is she incorporates WNY into her stories. In this book I could not help smiling that the main character relocated to WNY. Susan put well known landmarks, streets, restaurants, etc into her story. She not only educated the character but her readers to what to see or do if they ever decide to come to WNY.

I truly loved how she just happened to plug another talented WNY author Gary Earl Ross and his book Blackbird Rising into the story. Gary educates his readers on the history of WNY within his books. 

In each book Susan writes she adds a little paranormal aspect of the storyline. While it is not a fave sub genre of mine she makes it very interesting.  In What’s Past Is Prologue Jessica the main character has odd dreams that haunt her. During the story the flashbacks of the dream come up to play. 

Susan wrote this one scene in the book that was incredibly fascinating and filled with a lot of details of bones. 

I couldn’t stop laughing when she went through the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive through line at the location in Niagara Falls. Jessica and everyone else in Niagara Falls seemed to want to cook that night as she waited 20 minutes.