About Bruno
Though an adopted son of the South for several decades, I still long for the solitude of a gray day shrouded by the heavy fog that rolls in from Puget Sound. It’s my earliest page, my origins, and even today thoughts of it tug at my heart. It’s no surprise that my first two novels, Town Lawe, and the recently released, The House of Long Shadows, would materialize in that region of the country and embody the essence of what makes the Pacific Northwest so magical.
I’m currently working on Clary Sage & Yarrow, a tale that came to me in a dream so vivid that it woke me at two o’clock in the morning and kept my mind turning until I arose at four to draft the outline. After almost forty years, and just as many lives of southern living, I’m humbled to lend these fingers to a story that pays tribute to my home, and those who’ve been part of my southern journey.
Please consider this your personal invitation to come sit a spell among the fireflies and June bugs; where the stars are easily seen and your mind is soothed by a symphony of crickets. However, it’s not all sweet tea and chess pie. The South has a mist of its own that settles in the hollows of these Tennessee hills, and folks here know better than to go pokin’ where they shouldn’t ought!
Happy haunts –
Bruno
“Survival demands that we learn to live with the consequences of our decisions, written or otherwise, and I’m only three ferry stops away from facing mine. Or so I think.”
When acclaimed novelist Meredith Gaines returns to Orcas Island, Washington, and the summer home of her youth, it’s not only to provide a respite for her hardworking husband, and a break from the influences of Seattle for their precocious thirteen-year-old son. There’s an unfulfilled promise that has haunted her since she fled the island seventeen years earlier. Frightening rumors have long circulated about the property that shares its name with her latest best-selling psychological thriller; rumors that Meredith is very well acquainted with. It’s the reason she’s returned for what lies beneath the emerald waves of Rosario Strait.
In his latest thrilling adventure, award-winning author Bruno Pirecki guides readers through the haunting beauty of the Pacific Northwest where truth and illusion blur, and the past is never truly forgotten.
Town Lawe
“On the sixth step I lifted my gaze, and there among the trunks of aspen and birch was a pale-white face with coal-black eyes staring back at me. Its charge, like my terror, was immediate—this was not a cat!”
The mountain hamlet of Pole Pass, Idaho, is heavy with mining legacy, native lore, and dark secrets buried since its foundation. Accomplished in academics and the tribal traditions of his ancestors, Town Lawe finds peace deep in the ancestral forest, and in his schoolwork. But while away at Princeton, he begins to explore the mysteries of his deceased mother’s past, and what he unearths will rock his hometown to the core. In the process, he opens an ancient truth that reveals a glimpse of what lies beyond.
In his award-winning debut adventure, Bruno Pirecki leads us from the mysterious forests of the Pacific Northwest to the hallowed halls of Princeton, and back again. Take heed to the wise woman’s words “Our path is straight yet made up of corners. It was designed this way, so the beauty unfolds only in glimpses.”
Clary Sage & Yarrow
“When our car broke from the canopy of myrtles, my eyes were instantly drawn to this brick farmhouse set among the cluster of hardwoods on a far-off hilltop. There was an odd feeling of peace that came with the sight; like I belonged here, and here belonged with me.”
“In the hills of Tennessee, a place of rest is there for thee. Bring along your sorrows and cares; those memories too great to bear. Under the tree your story told, among the Clary Sage & Yarrow . . .”
A southern gothic tale. Arriving Fall 2026