Local author Frank Hopkins to appear at Browseabout Dec. 2

Local writer and Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild member Frank E. Hopkins will be signing his new novel, "Abandoned Homes: Vietnam Revenge Murders" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2, at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach.

U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ended in 1975 when the U.S. abandoned its embassy in Saigon. However, the hate developed during the war years, especially at major universities, continued. Proponents of the war, fierce opponents of communism, acted during the war years to remove potential traitors from U.S. society. Those against the war continued their opposition, begun in the 1960s, culminating in the riots and student killings at major universities, including Kent, Maryland and Wisconsin.

Paul O'Hare, a retired history professor, uncovers a long-hidden domestic impact of the Vietnam War 33 years after it ended when he finds a skeleton in the crawl space of an abandoned home in southern Delaware. The Delaware State Police investigation team, headed by Detective Margaret Hoffman, discovers two more skeletons, and the quest for a serial killer begins. Hoffman soon discovers the three skeletons belonged to graduate students at the University of Maryland during the 1970s, when O'Hare was there. He soon becomes a major suspect. Eventually the state police clear him, and he begins a romantic relationship with Detective Hoffman that includes conflicts between his anti-war sentiments and her experience as a Marine veteran.

In this fast-paced suspense novel, the search for a serial killer reveals a complex web of interrelated former students, a crusading newspaper reporter, and CIA agents and double agents.

Frank Hopkins will also be signing his other two novels, "Unplanned Choices" and "The Opportunity," and his award-wining short story collection, "First Time."

Hopkins is active in the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild and the Eastern Shore Writers Association. He also plays golf and tennis, sails on the Chesapeake Bay, and enjoys the ocean and Inland Bays of southern Delaware.

For more information, go to frankehopkins.com.