Part Of The Solution: A Counterculture Who Dunit Elana Michelson
A 2025 INDIES Award Finalist • BookLife Editor’s Pick • Foreword Clarion Reviews 5 Stars
It’s 1978. A murder has shattered the fragile peace of a countercultural community.
Jennifer Morgan is a sassy New Yorker hiding from graduate school in Flanders, Massachusetts, a countercultural haven of activists, seekers, poets, and idealists. At the Café Galadriel, Dylan plays on the record player while politics jockey for table space with Tarot readings. Then one of its customers turns up dead.
Everyone is a suspect: the Yeats-wannabe poet, the anti-war hero, the organic farmer who knows how to hold a grudge. Jennifer begins asking questions, forming an uneasy alliance with Ford McDermott, a young police officer whose ideas about justice are very different from hers.
Literate, atmospheric, and witty Part of the Solution is a both rueful love letter to a vanished moment and a meditation on loyalty and justice.
A unique blend of village whodunit and 1970s historical fiction, Part of the Solution is for those who like character-driven mysteries peppered with snappy dialogue, unconventional settings, and the whiff of rebellion in the air.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH ELANA MICHELSON
Librarians are my heroes in these troubled times, and I was thrilled to be interviewed by Jenn Jordan of the Syosset Public Library. Her enthusiasm for books – and the folks who read them – reminded me how much we depend on the hard-working people who keep literacy and access to information alive.
