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Behind the story of Murder at the Marlowe Club

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Kate Parker grew up reading her mother’s collection of mystery books and her father’s library of history and biography books. Now she can’t write a story that isn’t set in the past with a few decent corpses littered about.Tragedy behind the story One of the issues Kate addresses in Murder at the Marlowe Club is cocaine usage. She noted that, in the story’s time period, … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Murder at the Marlowe Club

Behind the story of Murder Makes Scents

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Christin Brecher spent many years working in marketing and publishing. While she was born and raised in New York City, she considers herself very much a small-town girl. Murder Makes Scents is her second book in the Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery series. The cafe influence "When I was starting the book, I brought my computer to a small café on Nantucket,”Christin said. "I … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Murder Makes Scents

Behind the story of Don’t Look Down by Hilary Davidson

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Hilary Davidson is the bestselling author of One Small Sacrifice and the winner of two Anthony Awards. Her novels include the Lily Moore series and the standalone thriller Blood Always Tells. A Toronto-born travel journalist who’s lived in New York City since October 2001, she’s also the author of eighteen nonfiction books. It begins with the characters "For me, the story … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Don’t Look Down by Hilary Davidson

Behind the story of Dead Week by Kelly Brakenhoff

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Kelly Brakenhoff is an American Sign Language Interpreter and the author of the Cassandra Sato Mystery series. As an interpreter, Kelly often sees misunderstandings and miscommunications between people who don’t share the same language and culture. Because it’s her job to help that flow of communication happen as smoothly as possible, she felt strongly about making that issue … [Read more...] about Behind the story of Dead Week by Kelly Brakenhoff