In HIDDEN DEMONS: Evil Visits A Small New England Town by Margery B. Metzger, a chilling true crime narrative unfolds against the serene backdrop of the Berkshire Hills on an ordinary winter day in 1994. The book delves deep into a series of seemingly unrelated yet horrifying events that shook the idyllic New England towns, revealing the sinister presence of a savage serial killer, Lewis Lent, Jr., lurking in the shadows. A review of HIDDEN … [Read more...]
Author Margery Metzger On The Importance of True Crime Writing
A true crime writer walks a tightrope. Brutal crimes may be sensational, but most of all they are traumatic. The writer must balance facts of the crime about the perpetrator, the witnesses, law enforcement, the judicial, and the survivors. It is not easy to research this material and to sort through events to try to determine what is fact and what has been distorted either through time or one's own perspective. Perpetrators should be held … [Read more...]
HIDDEN DEMONS: Evil Visits A Small New England Town
A father, his daughter, and a brave young girl thwarted criminals whose escalating hidden demons led them to bolder and more risky acts of violence in Margery Metzger's Debut True Crime. On January 7, 1994, residents of Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical snowy winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. The quaint New England towns, the idyllic scenery, and the people who lived there could have stepped out of a Norman Rockwell … [Read more...]
Margery B. Metzger
Growing up in a small town in New Jersey, then spreading my wings in the big cities of Cincinnati, Denver, and Detroit, I found my way back to small town America settling more than forty years ago in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Becoming an author spontaneously generated itself in what I thought would be my retirement. It turns out that this is just the next chapter in a life of varied careers that somehow were all … [Read more...]