New City native, Abram "Abby" Traphagen was a local kid who made good. A high school football star who went on to sports fame with a full scholarship to Florida State University, he was later drafted by the NY Giants, where he spent ten years as a wide receiver. Hired as a television network football commentator, he capitalized on his fame and became a bestselling mystery novelist. Now, in 2008, his life has fallen apart. His wife has died of acute alcohol poisoning, his 20 year-old son has disappeared, and he's been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Alone in his remote, 200 year-old ivy-covered sandstone cottage on South Mountain Road, he's made a decision. He will take a last "walk into the woods" on his beloved promontory, Low Tor, and watch his final sunset. But on his second night there he witnesses a senseless, brutal murder of a young woman by two men. After he reports the shooting to the police, they find no forensic evidence that a murder took place. When the body is eventually found on his remote hillside retreat near Lake Tiorati, he becomes the primary suspect. Told through the eyes of his estranged son, LOW TOR is novel of small-town aspirations come true, of lifelong resentments, secrets, and dreams, and a murder mystery, partially based on true events, that defies the conventions of the genre.Like in his first New City novel, DEMAREST KILL, fifth-generation New City native Frank Eberling, combines local history and lore with an intriguing crime story. Told in flashbacks that go back over one hundred years, it weaves together four separate stories that explore the genesis of Abby Traphagen's obsessions, and how he came to live the complicated life he did. Frank Eberling graduated from Clarkstown High School in 1964, moved to Florida to attend the University of Florida, became an educator, then an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing over 3,000 television programs over the course of forty-four years. He lives in South Florida.