Arts & Culture
Book Review: Journalist spins riveting tale of murder and intrigue along the California coast
Colm MacCay, the anti-hero of Paul McHugh’s novel “Deadlines” (Lost Coast Press, $16.95), is a besotted, arrogant and wildly insecure newspaper columnist beyond his prime, who swaggers and staggers onto a story of abused personal and private trust and wants to make it his own. Unraveling a seaside murder before the competition scoops him could resuscitate MacCay’s faltering career — and, of course, bring a measure of justice to the victims.
