LISA DILL

Lisa Dill has trained horses, sold pet food, and worked as a security guard, lifeguard and bartender.  She spent nearly a decade working in the criminal justice system for the Justice of the Peace courts and the Delaware Department of Justice.  She has a master’s degree in English Literature and won the 2004 Excellence in Teaching award at the University of Delaware, where she taught writing.  In 2006 she quit teaching to work full-time with her mother’s public relations and writing company, since renamed The Dill Company.  She’s been published in a number of magazines and contributed to several non-fiction books.   Those Who Weep Now is her first novel.

THOSE WHO WEEP NOW

Kate Jansen, 33, leads a pretty normal life: a good job, a nice house, a dog… great friends. Then, abruptly, her mother is murdered — senselessly struck down because she was in the proverbial wrong place, at the wrong time.

Everything starts to fall apart around Kate.

When the killer confesses, everyone around her seems to think life will get back to normal. Kate is going through the motions pretty well. She manages to keep doing her job, takes care of her dog and her mother's cat. Kate even meets the perfect man.

But her rage won’t be denied. Righteous though it may be, it propels Kate into darker places with every breath; the anger she uses to avoid her grief drives her as far from normal as she can get.

When the killer finally has his day in court, Kate’s rage takes the driver’s seat. How far will Kate go?

Those Who Weep Now is a poignant novel that powerfully explores loss, grief, anger, revenge, the death penalty, guilt and the prospects of a return to normalcy after the loss of a loved one to violence.