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Her new novel is A Shot in the Dark.
One of the author's six favorite seaside tales, as shared at The Week magazine:
The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson (2016).Read about another entry on the list.
This fantastic novel, imagining the period when crime writer Patricia Highsmith lived in a small English cottage, sweeps you up — just as Highsmith did herself — on a high tide of guilt and fear, and includes a nighttime scene of our heroine immersed in the North Sea, clumsily committing a dead body to the black waves. Have I mentioned that I am terrified to go into the sea myself? Again, a masterly description explains why.
--Marshal Zeringue