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Love or Murder: The Sampson Mystery
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Serinidy Press
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Love or Murder: The Sampson Mystery is a sweeping historical novel that follows Quentin Lewis from his days as a bright-eyed Naval Academy graduate through the twilight of one world war and into the crucible of another.
Rising steadily through the ranks of a peacetime Navy, Lewis watches the world transform around him - until December 7th changes everything. Assigned to a Fletcher Class Destroyer in the Pacific, he faces Japanese torpedoes, shark-infested waters, and the brutal cost of war firsthand. But when the newly completed United States Naval Training Station at Sampson, New York needs a commander, Captain Lewis is pulled from the fight - only to discover that duty on the quiet shores of the Finger Lakes carries its own dangerous secrets.
As a rural Upstate New York community was uprooted to build Sampson's sprawling base between two beautiful lakes, something happened among its sailors and civilian workers that was never resolved. Fifty years later, a Cornell University professor and his golden retriever walk the overgrown grounds of what remains - and begin pulling at threads that were meant to stay buried.
Love or Murder: The Sampson Mystery moves from the boiler rooms of Navy destroyers to the shores of Seneca Lake, weaving romance, intrigue, and history into a story that asks one question no one has been able to answer:
Was it love - or was it murder?
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