The Boston Globe Magazine By 1944, Emma Bushee’s sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters – and tried to pray them home safe. On Mother’s Day 1945, World War II was still raging in the Pacific. The flag proudly hanging in Emma Bushee’s living room window in Melrose displayed […]

Author with local ties writes second Franklin-based novel. An author with local ties has written a second crime novel that again uses Franklin as the primary backdrop for his story. “Echoes of Malice” was penned by Jim Bushee of Austin, Texas, who writes under the pseudonym J. Michael Boucher.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette In 2021, one Pennsylvanian died of a drug overdose every two hours. But that number doesn’t tell the whole story. Drug addiction has had tragic impacts on our families and communities, often inflicting deep and permanent wounds. My latest novel, “Echoes of Malice,” was inspired by the death of a close friend