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Title Private investigations : mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders in their lives / edited by Victoria Zackheim.
Publication Info. New York : Seal Press, 2020.
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 Alafaya  813.08 PRI    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  813.08 PRI    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description vi, 311 pages ; 21 cm
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Contents 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 Kruege -- 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 Hallie -- The beams keep falling / Steph Cha -- Writing about war / Jacqueline Winspear -- Can we live without mystery? / Tasha Alexander -- Godfathers, Nancy Drea, and cats / Carole Nelson Douglas -- The mystery of my lost voice / Caroline Leavitt -- Remembering the dead / Charles Todd -- Nuns, magic, and Steven King / Robert Dugoni -- I want to be a magician / Anne Perry.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Authorship.
Detective and mystery stories, English -- Authorship.
Genre Biographies.
Added Author Zackheim, Victoria, editor.
ISBN 9781580059213 hardcover : $28.00
158005921X hardcover