Today, we're getting to know Tricia Miles, the main character in Lorna Barrett's Booktown Mystery series.
I grew up in Stamford, CT and now live in Stoneham, NH. After college, I lived in Manhattan for about 15 years. I like the slower pace of a small town.
I’m a bookseller who specializes in vintage mysteries, although that isn’t all I sell. I sell used books and some new, along with magazines, coffee mugs, etc. I wish I could just sell vintage mysteries, but they are harder and harder to come by and I have two employees, so need that income stream.
I never planned to become an “amateur sleuth.” Somehow, it just happened when my neighbor was killed and the local Sheriff decided I was the most likely suspect, and all because we had a disagreement and I found her body later that day. Honestly, I’ve read far too many mysteries to know that crime doesn’t pay, and why would I want to put myself on the suspect list? Unfortunately, I seem to have acquired the nickname “village jinx” because I’ve found several bodies.
I’m between relationships right now, not that my ex-husband and ex-lover seem to realize it. I’m happy where I am right now, but everyone around me seems to think I need romantic entanglement. When the time is right, I hope to find that special someone.
My sister thinks I need to diversify. She has several businesses and thrives on living a rather chaotic life. Me? Not so much. I intend to keep selling books—and trying to stay out of trouble.
The immensely popular
Booktown Mystery series is what put Lorna Barrett’s name on the New York Times
Bestseller list, but it’s her talent -- whether writing as Lorna, or
L.L. Bartlett, or Lorraine Bartlett -- that keeps her there. This
multi-published, Agatha-nominated author pens the exciting Jeff Resnick
Mysteries as well as the acclaimed Victoria Square Mystery series and the Tales
of Telenia saga, and has many short stories and novellas to her name(s). Check
out the descriptions and links to all her works, and sign up for her emailed
newsletter here: http://www.LornaBarrett.com/
BOOK
CLUBBED, to be released on July 1st, is the 8th Booktown
Mystery. RT Book Reviews said: "The charm of this series is in the entrepreneurial spirit of the protagonist and her sister who run their own business while dealing with relationship issues and solving mysteries. The strength in this entertaining and suspenseful mystery lies with the colorful secondary characters and the strong plotting."
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