By day, Abigail Goldman is an investigative reporter for the state’s public defender office in Bellingham, Washington. By night, she spends her free time creating beautiful miniature worlds with tender scenes of medieval life balanced with horror and suspense. Her unique style of blending fantasy with reality has won her thousands of loyal readers and been referred to as one of the country’s best kept secrets. Her work is widely praised for its realistic portrayal of acheron elves, tortured witches, and Dracula alike. Her other books have also been praised for their creativity, color, and overall beauty. The National Book Award and several other prestigious awards have only served to add to her reputation.
Although Abigail Goldman is seventy years old, her mind and energy are as fresh as when she was a young girl. Her vivid imagination fuels her stories about detectives, villains, and even the everyday people that help build or uncover the various mysteries in her books. As a child, she could not stop dreaming about becoming an investigator. As she grew older, she thought that she would be happy if only she had a TV or radio to listen to while doing her homework instead of being chained to her desk reading a book. Her greatest passion is, of course, writing, and she looks forward to getting her next story out in the news.
In Many Dark Places, Abigail Goldman looks at what it means to be an investigator in modern times. She examines the different roles that police, journalists, and environmentalists play in keeping our environment clean and preserving our species. Goldman takes you back through history to events that created present day nightmares for criminals and those who are accused of committing these crimes. This darkly creative mystery thriller series with strong female characters continues on with the first volume in a new series entitled, “Many Dark Places.” Following up on the success of her first novel, “Beowulf,” Abigail Goldman promises readers another exciting adventure in the detective agency where she serves as both a private and a corporate detective.