Private investigations Mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders in their lives
Book - 2020
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she lost her voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from writers' imaginations, and more"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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New York :
Seal Press
2020.
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- vi, 311 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781580059213
- Introduction : solving the mystery / Victoria Zackheim
- Ghosted / Hallie Ephron
- Plot twists : this writer's life / Jeffrey Deaver
- An extra child / Sulari Gentill
- Field notes à la Maigret from Paris / Cara Black
- Lydia and Jack / Connie May Fowler
- The land of the morning calm (and other military mysteries) / Martin Limón
- The clay that we shape / William Kent Krueger
- Origins and destinations / Ausma Zehanat Khan
- A trick of the light / Kristen Lepionka
- The mystery of deception / Lynn Cahoon
- The long shadow of war / Rhys Bowen
- I don't know this word / Rachel Howzell Hall
- The beams keep falling / Steph Cha
- Writing about war / Jacqueline Winspear
- Can we live without mystery? / Tasha Alexander
- Godfathers, Nancy Drew, and cats / Carole Nelson Douglas
- The mystery of my lost voice / Caroline Leavitt
- Remembering the past / Charles Todd
- Nuns, magic, and Steven King / Robert Dugoni
- I want to be a magician / Anne Perry.
Review by Kirkus Book Review