International espionage! Murder for profit! Long Beach Island!

Wait, what?

Keslie Patch-Bohrod of Loveladies wrote her first two novels last year, both thrillers featuring her protagonist, Miranda Craig.

When Patch-Bohrod began to write her first novel a number of years ago, she thought what better locale to place her thriller in than Long Beach Island.

“I had read an article in New Jersey Monthly magazine titled ‘The Spies of Loveladies.’ It was about Silvermaster and Ullman, two land developers who built up Loveladies and had been accused of being Russian spies,” she explained.

Nathan Gregory Silvermaster was an American economist who served in numerous federal agencies before, during and after…