The Untold Tale of Shady Badesso has been two years in the writing. While it touches on many of the same elements and themes as my other works—friendship, love and loyalty—it also incorporates something new for me. A little bit of suspense. As are all of my novels, the story is set in my adopted home state of Connecticut, a place I have now lived for more than twenty years. What made this story even more fun to write is that within it I was also able to sprinkle in a trip to my wife’s and my favorite place to visit in the entire world—Nantucket, a beautiful island off the coast of Cape Cod that we spend some time in each summer.