Low Flying

by Patricia Goodwin

“Goodwin’s prose is sharp and descriptive, invoking vivid word pictures… a strong undercurrent of tension and horror.” — Kirkus Reviews When her boss is suddenly found murdered, Sarah Rose Trainor becomes the prime suspect. In the beautiful seaside town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, in a dilapidated greenhouse called Paradise, two women suffering difficult and psychologically abusive marriages find and nurture each other. Dreamy and pleasantly drugged, Jamie Goddard runs the business with her volatile husband, Ruli. Sarah Rose Trainor, a struggling writer, arrives looking for meaningful work that will give her a respite from her own strained home life. While not exactly friends, Jamie and Sarah Rose find themselves growing stronger from their daily contact. Against the gorgeous backdrop of an elegant, but half-ruined greenhouse, filled with seasonal flowers and lush plants, in a small town full of gardeners, the two women grow closer. Events intensify and heat up with the summer until Ruli is mysteriously murdered and Sarah Rose becomes the prime suspect. Once again, author Patricia Goodwin has created a powerful and shocking portrait of the secrets concealed by the seemingly idyllic and serene world of Marblehead. For more information on the author, please visit patriciagoodwin.com.

137 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 4, 2020

About the author

Patricia Goodwin grew up in an Italian American neighborhood outside of Boston. She was the first in her family to finish high school and go on to college. She graduated cum laude from Salem State College, Salem, MA where she earned a BA in English Literature. In the early days of the natural foods movement, she created and taught macrobiotic educational programs for the East West Foundation, Brookline, MA (now the Kushi Institute, Becket, MA). She is currently a writer and a publicity agent for artists and independents. She promoted Women in the Arts, 2003, which raised funds for H.A.W.C. (Help for Abused Women and Children). In addition to many articles of non-fiction, which have appeared in publications such as The Boston Herald, American Express OnTime, AAA Horizons, The Marblehead Reporter and The North Shore Sunday.


She has three books of poetry, Marblehead Moon (Plum Press, 1993), Java Love (Plum Press, 1997) and Atlantis (Plum Press, 2006). "A Child's Christmas in Revere", a chapter from her novel, Holy Days was published in the anthology, Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America (Seal Press, 2004) She is currently working on another book of poetry, The Housewife, and a novel, Oxygen. Patricia lives with her husband and daughter in an historic seacoast town in Massachusetts.