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Atlanta — It’s been more than 18 years since William Earl Lynd was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his girlfriend in Berrien County. Now, almosttwo decades after he was arrested for the murder of Ginger Moore, the state plans to execute Lynd next month.¹

William Earl Lynd is sentenced to die for the 1988 slaying of his live-in girlfriend. Authorities say Lynd shot Ginger Moore three times in the face and head after they argued while driving to a vacation.²

In her second novel (following Not the End of the World, LJ 1/92) Stowe returns to upper Michigan, this time small-town North Bay. Her protagonist, Ginger Moore, a 38-year-old academic whose biographies resurrect lost female writers, is returning home to her dysfunctional family for the annual (un)festive Christmas gathering.³

Packing her slate-gray wit like a velvet-covered blackjack, Ginger Moore is the kind of frail-tough modern woman who haunts the streets of urbane America. The Shadow of Desire has a focus of concentration that grants it both literary authority and passionate momentum.⁴

While the jealous biological women went into the ladies’ room to slit their throats, another heavenly body, Ariel SInclair, showed came out to show her talents. While Ginger Moore looked very Britney-like, Ariel was the spittin’ image of that other teen pop star, Christina Aguliera.⁵

Lynd was sentenced to die for kidnapping and shooting his live-in girlfriend, Ginger Moore, 26, in south Georgia in 1988, after the two consumed Valium, marijuana and alcohol. Prosecutors said she suffered a slow, agonizing death, regaining consciousness twice after being shot in the head.⁶