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Meet Maggie Hope mystery author Susan Elia MacNeal

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Susan Elia MacNeal is the author of The New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Maggie Hope mysteries. Her first book in the series, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, was nominated for an Edgar and won the 2013 Barry Award for Best Paperback Original. In this interview, MacNeal discusses her latest book in the Maggie Hope mysteries, Mrs. […]

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The story behind new David Walton thriller

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David Walton is an engineer by day, writer by night. HIs day job takes him into a world most people would find mind-bending. He does the same for his fans with his fiction. Walton’s latest release is “Supersymmetry,” a sci-fi thriller with a built-in murder mystery. Walton calls “Supersymmetry” a thriller with a lot of […]

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Little Pretty Things is a roller coaster ride

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Juliet Townsend is working a dead-end job at the Mid-Night Inn, a one star hotel, located just outside the small town of Midway, Indiana. She often reflects on her life and her track team races at Midway High School, wondering how it all went so wrong. Juliet has lost hope of ever getting her life […]

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July Double Trouble Contest

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Contest ended! Watch for next month’s Book & a Latte contest featuring Ace Atkins The July Double Trouble Contest is on! Entries will be accepted from Sunday, July 12 – July 19. If you are not already receiving The (Little) Snitch — Contest Edition and want to register, click here. The (Little) Snitch — Contest Edition always contains […]

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Sujata Massey talks about The Kizuna Coast

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Agatha and Macavity Award winner Sujata Massey’s latest novel is “The Kizuna Coast.”  In this interview, the author of the Rei Shimura mysteries discussed “The Kizuna Coast” and how a natural disaster influenced the book. “Writing The Kizuna Coast was a way to recognize a significant change in the real world and my fictional environment,” […]

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Lori Rader-Day discusses Little Pretty Things

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Lori Rader-Day’s first mystery novel, “The Black Hour,” has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Mary Higgins Clark Award, a Macavity, an Anthony, and the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original. For this interview, Lori Rader-Day is talking about her second mystery, “Little Pretty Things,” and why she believes it’s the characters, not issues, […]

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Lessons learned with Maggie Toussaint

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Maggie Toussaint (maggietoussaint.com) started out as a scientist and technical writer. By a quirk of fate, she discovered early on how people can ignore the obvious and take extraordinary steps to avoid involvement. Toussaint is a believer that justice should always be served and, for this interview, talked about karma, life’s defining moments, and her […]

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Catriona McPherson – discusses Come to Harm

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Catriona McPherson is the award-winning author of mysteries in multiple genres. She writes a 1920s detective series as well as standalone thrillers. One of the things that makes Catriona McPherson unusual is that she’s a Scottish writer who grew up on a diet that would send vegetarians running for the hills. For this interview with […]

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Larry D. Sweazy discusses book indexing and murder

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Larry D. Sweazy has been a freelance indexer for seventeen years. For the uninitiated, an indexer is a person whose job is to find the relevant facts in a book and create the index. For this interview, Larry D. Sweazy described how his…

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Susan Cummins Miller — whitewater rafting and Chasm

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In the summer of 2011, Susan Cummins Miller took a whitewater raft trip through the Grand Canyon. From the rafting trip, sprang her thriller, “Chasm.” In this interview, geologist and author Miller describes how that…

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