What the Critics Say
About Lowen Clausen
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 First Avenue
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When novelist Lowen Clausen first began writing First Avenue,
"there was no distance between the street and me." Having once been a seasoned
beat cop in the waterfront city, Clausen creates a convincing portrait of Sam, who
can't get the image of the dead baby out of his mind and who can no longer "sweat out"
the streets in his daily kayak trek home. During Sam's dogged investigation emerge
other intriguing people in Sam's life-his beautiful neighbor Georgia; Sam's friend Silve,
the restaurant owner in the Pike Place Market; and the mysterious young Alaska
Native girl, Maria. — from the jacket
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 River
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A tale of solitary travel and the spiritually healing powers of nature, this multilayered narrative follows a bereaved father as he kayaks his way through grief. The shallow stream in northwestern Nebraska where he starts his journey is all but inseparable from this lonely man’s life—it’s where he fell in love for the first time, had his first sexual encounters, and scattered the ashes of his son. Deemed a fitting place to realize his long overdue dream of building a boat and letting the river take him where it may, the man launches his kayak and soul into the water. With the angry last words of his son echoing in his head, the man abandons himself to the river and its whims with the hope that it will lead him to forgiveness and understanding of the tangled relationship he had with his estranged son. — from the publisher |
 Second Watch
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Seattle's Ballard Avenue is the beat for officers Grace Stevens and Katherine
Murphy — and the scene of a sadistic murder. Enlisted by the Sex Crimes
Unit, Grace and Katherine are charting darker territory than ever before — and
discovering, firsthand, the evil that men do. — from the jacket
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 Third & Forever
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When Officer Grace Stevens returns to college for an advanced degree, she doesn't expect
to stumble into the web of a serial rapist whose charm and skill on the football field
hide a much more sinister side. In the big money arena of college sports where winners
are above the law, Grace finds herself playing a dangerous game against an opponent
who doesn't like to lose. — from the publisher
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