Primrose: An AA McCay Novel

by Carleton Prince

An offbeat mystery set in the Gold Country of California. A town that time forgot. People whose memories reach back through generations. Lies, deceit, and murders that have written their own history and that seethe just beneath the surface ready to destroy everything and everyone. Photojournalist Adam Alexander McCay is on assignment in the decrepit mining town of Primrose to seek out the stories of the recluses, the iconoclasts, and the misanthropes who are drawn to the town to find fortune—or to escape their past. Adam’s own sister, Caila, has also come to Primrose with her two young children to escape her past and to find calm and quiet from her high-pressure profession as a pediatrician at a nearby university. But a misdialed phone call one night changes Caila’s life forever, and plunges her, Adam, and the entire town into a turmoil of dark memories, wrenching tragedies, and cold lies that make everyone a victim—and everyone guilty.

306 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 16, 2014

About the author

Carleton Prince was an advertising copywriter, creative director, and agency president before working in executive management in the mortgage banking and financial services industries. He studied physics and film at UCLA, earned a BA in philosophy at UC Berkeley, and worked on an MA in film at San Francisco State. He has two grown daughters, one in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco, and lives with his wife in Surprise, Arizona.