What is Catriona McPherson reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Catriona McPherson, author of Scotzilla.

Her entry begins:

This writer certainly reads. I love writing and I’m a writer in all of my daydreams but if I was one of those writers who couldn’t read while working on a book I’d be something else for work and keep reading.

Recently, because I was coming to Washington DC for the season, a friend pressed Jackie, by Dawn Tripp, into my hands. It’s a fictional account of the life of Jackie Kennedy, from when she was Jackie Bouvier up until after she was Jackie Onassis. It’s not at all the kind the of book I would normally read (although I enjoyed Curtis Sittenfield’s American Wife, a novel about Laura Bush) but I devoured it. Walking the streets of Georgetown where Jack and Jackie lived certainly helped, but it’s a lush novel wherever...[read on]

About Scotzilla, from the publisher:

Lexy's wedding becomes a crime scene when a murderer dares to strike on her big day in this superbly plotted and wickedly funny cozy.

Lexy Campbell is getting married! But in the six months of planning it took to arrive at the big day, she has become . . . a challenge. Friendships are strained to breaking point, Lexy's parents are tiptoeing around her, and even Taylor, her intended, must be having second thoughts. Turns out it's moot. Before the happy couple can exchange vows, Sister Sunshine, the wedding celebrant, is discovered dead behind the cake, strangled with the fairy lights.

Lexy's dream wedding is now not just a nightmare: it's a crime scene. She vows not to get drawn into the case, but the rest of the Last Ditch crew are investigating a bizarre series of goings-on in Cuento's cemetery, and every clue about the graveyard pranks seems to link them back to Lexy's wedding day. Will the Ditchers solve the case? Will Sister Sunshine's killer be found? Will Lexy ever get her happy ever after? Not even Bridezilla deserves this...

Fans of Janet Evanovitch and Sarah Strohmeyer will fall head over heels for this addictive mystery that's full of twists and laugh out loud humour.

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