VIRTUAL - Massachusetts Mysteries

Tuesday, May 307:00—8:00 PMVirtual

Mystery authors, Susan Cory, Jeannette de Beauvoir, and Leslie Wheeler, each of whom represents a different part of the state (Cory, Cambridge, de Beauvoir, Provincetown, and Wheeler, the Berkshires), will discuss why they picked these places as the settings for their books, and how they use them to create compelling fiction.

Susan Cory: Cory is an award-winning residential architect in Cambridge, Ma. She has a brown belt in karate. Her mystery series, beginning with CONUNDRUM, features Iris Reid, also a Cambridge architect, as an amateur sleuth trying to uncover a murderer at her Harvard reunion. FACADE, finds Iris drawn into a kidnapping scheme while teaching at Harvard. DOPPELGANGER, the third book in the series, features an obsessed con artist who implicates Iris in a crime, then tries to take over her life. In COLLATERAL DAMAGE, a lover from her boyfriend's past reappears on the scene.

Jeannette de Beauvoir: Award-winning author Jeannette de Beauvoir writes mystery and historical fiction that’s been translated into 12 languages. A Booksense Book-of-the-Year finalist, she’s a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the National Writers Union. All her novels are firmly rooted in a sense of place, and her delight is to find characters true to the spaces in which they live. She herself lives and writes in a cottage in Provincetown, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and loves the collection of people who assemble at a place like land’s end.

Leslie Wheeler: An award-winning author of books about American history and biographies, Wheeler writes two mystery series: Her most recent series, the Berkshire Hilltown Mysteries, debuted with RATTLESNAKE HILL, which received a starred review in Library Journal. It was followed by SHUNTOLL ROAD, and WOLF BOG, and Wheeler is working on the fourth book in the series. Her other series, the Miranda Lewis Mysteries, debuted with MURDER AT PLIMOTH PLANTATION, which has been re-released as a trade paperback recently. A strong sense of place informs Wheeler’s fiction. it’s where all her books begin; the characters and story flow from the setting. She divides her time between a home in Cambridge and a rural retreat in an off-the-beaten-track Berkshire town, where she writes in a house overlooking a pond.

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