Peter Orner keeps a small writing studio inside an old hotel on the Connecticut River, where Vermont meets New Hampshire.

Authorities believe Emily Long killed her husband and their two young children before shooting herself on Monday evening. A third child, a toddler, was unharmed.

Emily Long, 34, allegedly executed her husband, Ryan Long, 48, and their kids – Parker, 8, and Ryan, 6 – inside their Madbury home early Monday morning, before turning the gun on herself. She was ...