ABOUT THE BOOK
September 1800, Maine. Will Rees is beseeched by Tobias, an old friend abducted by slave catchers years before, to travel south to Virginia to help transport his pregnant wife, Ruth, back north. Though he's reluctant, Will's wife Lydia convinces him to go . . . on the condition she accompanies them.
Upon arriving in a small community of absconded slaves hiding within the Great Dismal Swamp, Will and Lydia are met with distrust. Tensions are high and a fight breaks out between Tobias and Scipio, a philanderer with a bounty on his head known for conning men out of money. The following day Scipio is found dead - shot in the back.
Stuck within the hostile Great Dismal and with slave catchers on the prowl, Will and Lydia find themselves caught up in their most dangerous case yet.
Book Details:
Title: Death in the Great Dismal
Author’s name: Eleanor
Kuhns
Genre: historical mystery
Series: Will Rees Mystery
Series
, book 9
Publisher: Severn House (January 5, 2021)
Print length: 218 pages
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT WITH ELEANOR KUHNS
Things you need in order to write: music and a cup of tea.
Things that hamper your writing: people talking to me.
Things you love about writing: creation of a world.
Things you hate about writing: it is so solitary.
Easiest thing about being a writer: having ideas.
Hardest thing about being a writer: getting published.
Things you love about where you live: yard with a lot of trees.
Things that make you want to move: very close to my family.
Things you never want to run out of: eggs and coffee.
Things you wish you’d never bought: jalapeno potato chips.
Words that describe you: blonde, creative.
Words that describe you but you wish they didn’t: overweight.
Favorite foods: any kind of bread.
Things that make you want to throw up: mac and cheese.
Favorite beverage: coffee.
Something that gives you a pickle face: beer.
Favorite smell: lavender.
Something that makes you hold your nose: mold.
Something you wish you could do: snowboard.
Something you wish you’d never learned to do: clean.
People you consider as heroes: Mother Teresa.
People with a big L on their foreheads: liars.
Last best thing you ate: lobster.
Last thing you regret eating: doughnut (but it was good).
Things you always put in your books: I also include one of the professions common at that time, usually that no one does anymore. (Barrel stave maker, coppicer.)
Things you never put in your books: graphic sex or violence.
Things to say to an author: I love your books.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Why don’t you do this in your next book?
Favorite places you’ve been: Crete/Greece.
Places you never want to go to again: so far every place has been interesting.
Favorite books: mysteries, SciFi and fantasy are my favorites.
Books you would ban: as a former librarian, I don’t believe in banning any book. But I don’t read Erotica.
Proudest moment: winning the 2011 MWA/Minotaur prize for best first mystery.
Most embarrassing moment: when I talked over another presenter at a conference.
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: zip lining in Costa Rica over seven mountains.
Something you chickened out from doing: skiing one of the taller mountains as Belleayre.
The last thing you did for the first time: zip lining in Costa Rica.
Something you’ll never do again: It may be zip lining. I was terrified.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A lifelong librarian, Eleanor Kuhns is the 2011 winner of the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur First Crime Novel competition. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and dog.
OTHER BOOKS BY ELEANOR:
Circle of Dead Girls
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