FEATURED AUTHOR: RICHARD AUDRY

It’s September 1902, and Mary MacDougall has fulfilled her greatest dream—opening her own detective agency. But the achievement doesn’t come without complication.

Mary’s father insists that an older cousin come to work with her—as both secretary and minder. Jeanette Harrison pledges to keep the plucky sleuth away from danger, as well as from her unsuitable suitor Edmond Roy.

The new agency’s first cases hardly seem to portend danger or significance. There’s the affair of the nicked napkin rings…the problem of the purloined pocket watch...and the matter of the four filched felines.

Mary and Jeanette have not the slightest notion that one of these modest matters will blow up into something consequential and perilous. What begins in triviality mushrooms into disappearance, betrayal, international intrigue, and murder. As she learns more and more, Mary’s prospects for making the acquaintance of an assassin’s blade improve dramatically.

Witty, fast-paced, and enthralling, A Fatal Fondness delves deeply into Mary’s world and paints the portrait of an unconventional young woman ever ready to defy propriety for the sake of justice.

Book Details:

Title: A Fatal Fondness

Author: Richard Audry

Genre: historical mystery


Series: The Mary MacDougall Mysteries, book 4


Publisher: Conger Road Press


Date Published: November 15, 2019


Print length: 260 pages
On tour with: Great Escapes Book Tours


Ifs

Q: If you could talk to someone (dead), who would it be and what would you ask them?
A: I was a bit under three months old when my mother died. So, of course, I have zero memories of her. I’d like to meet her when she was in her late twenties and get to know her. I’d ask her about her childhood (I have a cool picture of her with her tricycle), her career in nursing, and her dreams and aspirations.

Q: If you could step back into a moment or day in time, where would you go?
A: Another sentimental journey, I’m afraid. I’d love to go back to when I was, say, nine years old, and be with my dad and mom at one of the supper clubs we’d go to on the weekend. (My dad remarried and my step-mom became my adoptive mom.) And we would talk and talk and talk. I’d love to recapture that feeling and see my folks—both long gone—again, when they were young.

Q: If you could time travel for an infinite period of time, where would you go?
A: I’m a classical music fan and I’ve had this longtime fantasy of time-traveling back to Vienna c. 1790, with an ample purse of gold coins. I’d go find Herr Mozart and hire him to write me some music. Cello concertos and viola concertos. Operas based on Shakespeare and Cervantes. More string quartets. Solo guitar music. And then I’d stick around long enough to meet Beethoven and Schubert.

Q: If you could meet any author for coffee, who would you like to meet and what would you talk about?
A: An author whom I’ve already met, though he died many years ago. Back in the day I worked at a weekly newspaper, and books and authors were one of my beats. Frank Herbert was in town on a book tour and I spent the better part of day hanging out with him. I’d love to have his perspective on the state of American democracy (he was there in person at the McCarthy hearings in the early ’50s) and on what kind of chance we might have in the face of climate change. One of the great science fiction innovators—there was never a bigger sci-fi blockbuster than Dune—he was a fun, gregarious guy, with an incredible laugh. But he saw things painfully clearly. He would pull no punches.

Q: If you could live anywhere in the world, where in the world would it be?

A: In a small, modernist house just off the beach, somewhere in the Florida Keys. A rental or lease. I wouldn’t want to own beachside property, what with climate change.



Ands


5 favorite possessions:

    •    my car
    •    my Olympus DSLR camera
    •    my Larrivée guitar
    •    my movie collection
and
    •    my street photography archive

5 things you love about writing:

    •    creating credible worlds and vivid characters
    •    entertaining readers
    •    that feeling of finishing a book and knowing it’s good
    •    holding your book in your own hands
and
    •    the excitement of embarking on a new book

5 favorite foods:

    •    salmon
    •    buttered bread warm out of the oven
    •    a great sharp cheddar
    •    turkey sloppy joes
and
    •    blueberry pie à la mode

5 favorite books: 


    •    The Wind in the Willows
    •    The Great Gatsby
    •    Gaudy Night
    •    The Lonely Silver Rain
and
    •    any Agatha Raisin mystery

5 living people you’d like to invite to dinner:

    •    Michael Palin
    •    Joni Mitchell
    •    Michelle Obama
    •    Stephen Colbert
and
    •    Bob Dylan

Whats

Q: What’s your all-time favorite movie?
A: I love a great romantic comedy more than almost anything. And my ideal rom-com, which I watch every November, is Moonstruck. Cher was never more gorgeous and feisty and magical. And the young, scintillating Nicholas Cage stays with her every step of the way, chewing scenery like mad. No film better captured the jaw-dropping irrationality of infatuation and lust—under a moon that makes everyone loony.

Q: What’s your favorite meal?
A: My wife and I used to go to place called Palomino that served a wonderful salmon with polenta. Just heavenly. We occasionally make it ourselves, though it never quite recaptures that old magic.

Q: What’s your favorite vacation spot?
A: The North Shore of Lake Superior, near where I grew up. Sue and I love to hike the wonderful state parks up there.

Q: What’s your favorite beverage?
A: A gin martini on the rocks that I make myself, using a quality gin like Bombay or Plymouth. I quit ordering them in restaurants because they’re never as good as my own and cost too much. A close second would be a well-made latté.

Q: What’s your favorite hobby or past-time?
A: I’ve been a photographer since I was a kid. My main photo genres have been street photography, landscapes, unusual botanicals, and travel. I’ve had five exhibits of the street photos and they’ve been in several national magazines, here and in the UK.

Q: What’s your latest recommendation for:
Food: Chicken wrap using collard greens for the wrap
Music: Mongolian rock band The Hu
Movie: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Book: Any of the Slough House Series by Mick Herron
Podcast: Breakfast All Day (movie reviews)
TV: The Good Place
Netflix/Amazon Prime: Stranger Things
Miscellaneous: You Tube travel vlogs The Endless Adventure, Daneger & Stacey, and Travel Man









Richard Audry is the pen name of D. R. Martin. As Richard Audry, he is the author of four Mary MacDougall historical mysteries and three King Harald Canine Cozy mysteries. Under his own name, he has written the rip-roaring Johnny Graphic ghost adventure trilogy. He’s also the author of the hardboiled PI mystery Smoking Ruin and two books of literary commentary: Travis McGee & Me and Four Science Fiction Masters.


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It’s early December and Andy Skyberg is itching to blow town for a weekend of holiday cheer with old friends—including a date with an attractive divorcée who thinks he’s hot.

But first, Aunt Bev needs a teensy bit of help. She’s managing the Girls’ Weekend Out event at the Beaver Tail Resort and could use some extra muscle. Andy figures he can spare a few hours before hitting the road.

Mother Nature, though, has other plans. A giant blizzard makes an unexpected turn. Andy and his pooch King Harald find themselves snowbound—in a hotel full of hard-partying women, stranded travelers, a hockey team, a man-eating novelist, a belligerent blogger, and one violent, devious jewel thief.

Before you know it, man and mutt are up to their noses in another case. It’s a winter wonderland of fast-paced fun and merry madness, as the sleuthing duo dig out from King Harald’s Snow Job.

King Harald’s Snow Job (King Harald Mysteries)

Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series

Conger Road Press (August 1, 2017)

Paperback: 302 pages

ISBN-13: 978-0985019686
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Book ASIN: B0747QWYLZ

LOVE OR HATE INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD AUDRY

A few of your favorite things:
My guitars, my cameras, my library of movies and TV shows.
Things you need to throw out:
Old heavy, ugly furniture
.

Things you love about writing:
Being able to play God by creating worlds and characters.
Things you hate about writing:
It’s a sedentary activity that isn’t, on balance, ideal for your health.

Favorite foods: 
Baked salmon with polenta, buttered bread warm out of the oven, brats and potato salad and icy cold beer on a hot summer day.
Things that make you want to throw up:
Rutabagas, radishes, oysters, blanched slivered almonds.

Favorite music or song:
Jazz guitar albums (especially Klugh, Pass, Montgomery, Bickert).
Music that makes your ears bleed:
Rap.

Favorite beverage:
Gin Martini on the rocks with good olives
.
Something that gives you a pickle face:
Flavored, sweet coffee.

Favorite smell:
Lilacs on a springtime walk
.
Something that makes you hold your nose:
Any strong chemical smell.

Something you’re really good at:
Cooking.

Something you’re really bad at:
Overcoming my inertia in making big decisions.

People you consider as heroes:
Politicians who genuinely help their constituents, not their big-buck donors.

People with a big L on their foreheads:
Politicians who are hypocrites. For example, politicians who deny disaster aid to other states, while begging for it for their own.



Last best thing you ate:
A superb grilled cheese sandwich with a wonderful tomato sauce
.
Last thing you regret eating:
A Tim Horton frosted donut.

Things to say to an author:
Writing novels to make money is a poor reason. Write them because you have something you’re eager to say or you simply love the process. If you’re lucky, the money will follow. But don’t count on it.

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book:
Sorry, pal, put this one in the drawer and try again.

Things that make you happy:
Dinner out with my wife, long walks in perfect weather, finishing writing a book knowing I told a good tale well.

Things that drive you crazy:
Idiot drivers who tailgate, don’t use turn signals, creep at low speeds, run red lights.

Best thing you’ve ever done:
Spotting my wife at the department store where we worked and (three years later) marrying her.

Biggest mistake:
Not starting sustained literary efforts when I was younger.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done:
About to be caught in my then-girlfriend’s dorm room after hours, I jumped ten feet out her window in the dark onto a grating, miraculously avoiding breaking a leg.

Something you chickened out from doing:
Bungee cord jump.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Audry is the pen name of D. R. Martin. In addition to his career as a journalist and copywriter, D. R. has written a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction. His current projects include a fantasy adventure trilogy, a canine cozy mystery series, and historical mysteries set at the turn of the last century.

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Mary MacDougall’s first case of 1902 seems simple enough.

Just before the 19-year-old heiress leaves for a summer holiday on Mackinac Island with her Aunt Christena, she’s hired to stop in a little town along the way and make inquiries. Did Agnes Olcott really die there of cholera? Or were there darker doings in Dillmont?

Mary’s mentor, Detective Sauer, thinks it’s merely a case of bad luck for the dead woman. But Mrs. Olcott’s daughter suspects her detested stepfather played a hand in her mother’s untimely death.

With the reluctant help of her aunt and her dear friend Edmond Roy, the young detective struggles to reveal the true fate of Agnes Olcott. As she digs ever deeper, the enemy Mary provokes could spell disaster for her and the people she loves. But in the end, it’s the only way to banish a daughter’s doubt.

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD AUDRY

Richard, how did you get started writing?
I began my writing career as an arts journalist, and as I got older, decided I’d like to make more money. So I became a freelance copywriter for business clients, and I also did a stint in a corporate cube. Along the way I started writing fiction, and now do it full-time.

What do you wish you’d done differently when you first started the publishing process?
I wish I had written more books earlier in my life. I was discouraged back in the ‘80s and ‘90s by lots of rejections from agents and publishers. If I had had more than just one novel in good shape when I began indie publishing, I could have gotten up to speed much sooner.

What’s more important—characters or plot?
Characters. Good characters can carry a book without a good plot. But a good plot without good characters is a pretty bland reading exercise, IMO.

How often do you read?
I’m usually reading two or three books at a time. Right now it’s a hardboiled mystery set in Oregon and a biography of Raymond Chandler. And that doesn’t count reading the magazines I subscribe to (New Yorker, Esquire, Wired, Car and Driver, etc.).

What books do you currently have published?
There are now two novellas and a novel in the Mary MacDougall Mysteries. There are two novels in the King Harald Mysteries, which are canine cozies. My middle-grade series, the Johnny Graphic Adventures, has two books in it so far. There’s a freestanding mystery called Smoking Ruin. And I also have two short books of literary commentary—Travis McGee & Me and Four Science Fiction Masters.

Is writing your dream job?
It always has been. I’ve done journalism and business writing. But the dream of dreams, you might say, was to be a novelist. And I’ve been living that dream the last four years or so. Fame and fortune have not yet ensued, but I figure there’s still time.

How do you feel about Facebook?
I belonged for several years before I really started to explore it. It’s not only useful for keeping up with friends and family, but for getting word out about my adventures as an author. I can’t say, though, that I’ve entirely mastered its complexities. Sometimes stuff happens and I have no idea why. In other words, it’s still a bit of a mystery to me.

Would you make a good character in a book?
No, I think I would be rather boring. There’s no drama whatever in my life, and that’s just fine. I save the drama for my fictional characters.

What’s one thing you never leave the house without (besides a phone)?
Actually, I don’t carry a phone. I have one, but it’s in the car’s glove compartment, for emergencies only. I almost always have a little Canon camera in my pocket or on my belt. You never know when a good shot is going to come along.

What do you love about where you live?
We live in the middle of a big city, with all the perquisites that includes—shopping, dining, the arts, education, etc. But we’re just blocks away from the Mississippi River gorge and its wonderful parks and trails. In warm weather we’re out walking every day. We also live near the best neighborhood movie theater in town, with its $2-3 flicks and terrific popcorn. A three-minute walk and we’re there.


What’s your favorite thing to do on date night?
We’ll go out to a neighborhood café that’s operated by a young woman from France. She does a great job combining French and American styles of comfort food, at a very reasonable cost. Then we’ll go to a little jazz club that we frequent and sip on wine (her) and beer (me), as the music flows.


What’s your favorite beverage?
I love beer, ales and stouts, preferably from a small brewery. I enjoy a well-made gin martini. But I could live without beer and gin. The one drink I couldn’t do without is coffee. If you want to be more particular, a no-foam latté would be number one.


Name one thing you’re really good at and one thing you’re really bad at.
Good: Cooking, especially omelettes. Bad: Keeping track of stuff. My desk looks like the typical writer’s desk—piled high with papers and books. 

Where is your favorite place to visit?
The North Shore of Lake Superior, not far from where I grew up. There’s a place called Cascade River State Park and that river comes tumbling down through a rugged bluestone gorge of rapids and falls, then into the big lake. We love to watch the roaring water and hike the trails alongside it, thick with pines and birches and poplars. A little piece of heaven on earth.


Do you give your characters any of your bad traits?
Not bad traits, per se. But I sometimes give them the aches and pains that I live with—chronic back pain, bum knees, things like that.

What’s one of your favorite quotes?
“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.” —Harper Lee

You have a personal chef for the night. What would you ask him to prepare?                             
I think I would request seared giant scallops with a shallot/butter sauce and garlic mashed potatoes. To accompany it, a micro-greens salad, a really good baguette with small-creamery butter, and a chilled bottle of the best Vouvray available. And since I’m eating so lightly, he can whip up a nice tiramisu for dessert.


How do you like your pizza?
Basic and simple. That means a crisp, thin crust, sauce from real Italian tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, and fresh basil.


What’s your biggest pet peeve about writing?
Though I enjoy writing, the process is physically sedentary. I sit in front of the computer quite a lot. Not really healthy. I have a standing desk that I use to write first drafts. But for revisions, I find it works better to be at my regular desk.

If you had to choose a cliché about life, what would it be?
In terms of achieving anything worthwhile, there is no free lunch.


What are you working on now?
Having just finished the third Mary MacDougall story, I’m going to be hanging out with Andy Skyberg and King Harald for the next six months or so—for the third King Harald canine cozy. Harald and his boss get snowed in at a local resort and are dragooned into hunting down a very valuable piece of jewelry that’s been stolen. But it turns out there’s a lot more going on than mere thievery. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Audry is the pen name of D. R. Martin. As Richard Audry, he is the author of the Mary MacDougall historical mystery series and the King Harald Canine Cozy mystery series. Under his own name, he has written the Johnny Graphic middle-grade ghost adventure series, the Marta Hjelm mystery Smoking Ruin, and two books of literary commentary: Travis McGee & Me and Four Science Fiction Masters.

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ABOUT THE KARMA OF KING HARALD

When springtime arrives in picturesque New Bergen, so do the tourists and antiquers. This year, though, there are some unwelcome visitors. Extortion. Arson. And murder.

After his business tanks and his wife leaves him for a Pilates coach, Andy Skyberg flees the big city for the peace and quiet of his hometown. All he wants is a decent job, a steady girlfriend, a flat screen TV with a hundred-plus channels, and one loyal dog. But fate has something else in store for Andy, when his big mutt King Harald starts sniffing out crime.

It’s clear that someone has it in for the town’s New Age retailer, Trudi Bock. And it’s also clear that Trudi wants to rekindle the steamy romance she and Andy enjoyed back in college. Andy has to fend her off, while placating his fiery girlfriend, Deputy Sheriff Cass Conlin. Meanwhile, Harald keeps digging up more mayhem. And it falls to Andy to channel his inner sleuth and make sense of it all.

Throw into this mix one legendary (but lost) ebelskiver recipe . . . a gimlet-eyed church lady…a van full of federal agents . . . a crusty socialist…a beloved iguana . . . and an overabundance of rosemaling . . . And you have all the makings for The Karma of King Harald.

ABOUT KING HARALD'S HEIST

As the leaves begin to change color in New Bergen, Andy Skyberg wants to turn his full attention to his sister’s new café and art gallery—and to the beautiful Finnish architect who’s managing the project.

But the good-natured, go-to guy can’t seem to catch a moment’s peace. His next-door neighbors—two elderly sisters—want him to fend off a pushy historian who thinks they had a scandalous past. His parents enlist him to entertain a narcissistic, boring couple they would like to ditch. And his ever-scheming Aunt Bev tricks Andy into seeking an improbable new gig that could land him in the hot seat. 

Even Andy’s big ol’ mutt King Harald has a kennel full of trouble in store for him, beginning with a pilfered thousand-dollar bill and a naughty garden gnome. Before long, New Bergen’s favorite crime-sniffing pooch finds even more deep doo-doo to toss his boss into. 

Havoc and hilarity ensue, as Andy and his happy hound get to the bottom of King Harald’s Heist.

INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD AUDRY

Richard, how did you get started writing and when did you become an “author?”
I planned to become a photojournalist, but got engrossed in writing for the college newspaper. After that, I developed my career as a journalist and later a copywriter. I became an “author,” IMO, when I finished my first novel — an epic fantasy called The Queen of Thrones. This was several years before George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones.

How do you feel about Facebook?
Until recently, I hadn’t much use for it. But as I learn its ins and outs, I have to admit that it has a certainly utility for keeping tabs on old friends and new. I’m just now beginning to explore its capacity to help get word out about my books. I’ve set up a Richard Audry author page, and I’m slowly starting to develop it.

For what would you like to be remembered?
As a teller of good tales. After I’m gone, I’d like my books to live on as long as there are online vendors selling ebooks. I’d like to think that a hundred years from now someone will discover a King Harald mystery and be entertained by it.

What five things would you never want to live without?
1. Above all, my wife. I can’t imagine my world without her in it.
2. Good food. It’s not only nutrition, but comfort and pleasure. A nice meal can make a perfect day.
3. A Kindle full of great reads.
4. A nice, fast internet connection.
5. My big library of DVDs and Blu-Ray movies and TV shows. Who needs cable TV or streaming?

True. If you had a swear jar, would it be full?
If it were in my car, definitely. I live in a big city, so I see stupid driver tricks all the time. It seems every time I sally forth in the Toyota, I’m dodging idiots running stop signs or failing to yield or cutting in close or what have you. And then the air in my Camry turns blue and words beginning with “a” and “f” and “s” burst out of my mouth.

Do you spend more on clothes or food?
Definitely on food. My wife and I are pretty capable cooks. We’re constantly making dishes for the freezer and trying out new recipes. I think we both regard clothes as a necessary evil, buying things only when the old items wear out. No one would accuse me of being a fashion plate.

What is the most daring thing you've done?
Investing thousands of hours of my time and not a little money in this venture of writing and publishing fiction. It is easily the most risky thing I have done in my life. But it’s always been my dream over the years. And if I don’t pursue it now, when will I?

What’s one of your favorite quotes?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." —Theodore Roosevelt

What would your main character say about you?
“Why does this guy keep sticking me in situations where people are pointing guns at me? I’m just trying to live an ordinary life. And what’s so hard about finding me a nice, steady girlfriend?”

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to write?
I’ve written many hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, and just as many pieces of marketing and corporate communications. But by far the toughest project was the first book in my middle-grade fantasy series, Johnny Graphic and the Etheric Bomb. I had to create an alternate history of the world, make ghosts real and material, wrangle dozens of characters and complicated plot devices, and make it all believable. I worked on it for six years, off and on. It was brutal, but I’m proud of the book it became. In fact, I think it’s the best book I’ve written so far. Sales have been disappointing, but I’m determined to finish the trilogy. I owe it especially to the ghosts, who are the best characters I’ve created. I’ve left them trapped in the ether and I need to free them in the final book.

You can be any fictional character for one day. Who would you be?
My favorite fictional character? Travis McGee. He lived on a houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale starting in the mid-‘60s and sallied forth twenty-one times to solve mysteries and right wrongs. I would love to be as smart as him for a day, as tough, as resourceful, as thoughtful. But I don’t think my wife would want me cavorting with the nubile young things in bikinis that populated his boat, the Busted Flush. I even have a blog devoted to McGee.

Who would you invite to a dinner party if you could invite anyone in the world?
I would invite two English actors who have a very long history together — Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Laurie, of course, is known in these parts as Dr. House. But before that he was Bertie Wooster and Fry’s partner on a classic sketch comedy show. For his part, Fry played Bertie’s valet Jeeves. He is also a marvelous writer and raconteur, and a maker of travel documentaries, not to mention a prolific actor. As soon as we all sat down at the table, I would simply sit back and shut up, and let these two launch into a brilliant and witty dialog.


How many hours of sleep do you get at night?
I’ve been a poor sleeper since high school. I consider five hours to be adequate and six hours luxurious. I am not sure when the last time was that I slept eight hours. Maybe in 1996.

Do you have a favorite book?
It’s a novel I first read when I was twelve, and I love it as much today as then. It’s Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. While it was written for children, its depiction of the friendship between Rat and Mole and Toad speaks volumes to the nature of human friendship. I can read passages now that still move me. For example, I read the “Dolce Domum” (“Home Sweet Home”) chapter aloud to my wife every Christmas, and I still get a lump in my throat as poor little Mole smells the scent of his abandoned home in the midst of a snowstorm. He has to see it again. Rat desperately wants to get back to their new digs, but — being a true and good friend — goes with Mole to his old habitation. And as a writer, I am still blown away by Grahame’s flawless prose.

What are you working on now?
I’m just in the process of wrapping up the third book in my Mary MacDougall historical mystery series. It should be out sometime this winter. The first two tales were novellas, but the third installment is full-length. In it, Mary MacDougall — a young heiress of 1902 — takes on her first paying case. She thinks she has the craft of detecting figured out. But discovering the fate of her client’s mother turns out to be far more challenging and dangerous than she ever thought it would be. Complicating things further, she goes sleuthing with her handsome companion Edmond Roy, whom she thinks she hasn’t fallen in love with. For a detective, she’s not very good at uncovering her own emotions.

Lightning round:
Cake or frosting? Cake
Laptop or desktop? Desktop
Chevy Chase or Bill Murray? Bill Murray
Emailing or texting? Emailing
Indoors or outdoors? Indoors (in winter); outdoors (in summer)
Tea: sweet or unsweet? Unsweet
Plane, train, or automobile? Automobile

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Audry (D. R. Martin) grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, and began his writing career as an arts journalist in Minneapolis. He has specialized in topics ranging from consumer electronics and healthcare to travel and classical music. For many years, he reviewed science fiction and fantasy books for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He is the author of the Johnny Graphic ghost adventure series for kids; the contemporary PI mystery Smoking Ruin; the Mary MacDougall historical mysteries (A Pretty Little Plot, The Stolen Star, and A Mary MacDougall Mystery Duet); and the canine cozy mysteries The Karma of King Harald and King Harald’s Heist.



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