{"id":2688,"date":"2011-05-06T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2011-05-06T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T05:53:04","slug":"7-quick-takes-friday-7-mystery-authors-i-discovered-in-the-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes Friday &#8212; 7 Mystery Authors I Discovered in the Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share seven murder mystery authors I&#8217;ve discovered in the last year.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;1&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Leslie Meier<\/strong>: Writes about the adventures of Lucy Stone, a newspaper reporter in Tinker&#8217;s Cover, Maine.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;2&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Tamar Myers<\/strong>: Writes about the happenings of Magdalena Yoder, a Mennonite innkeeper in Hernia, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;3&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>G.A. McKevett<\/strong>: Writes about the delightful private investigator Savannah Reid in San Carmelita, California.  (She&#8217;s also a Facebook friend and interacts with her fans.)<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;4&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Mary Daheim<\/strong>: Two series of note &#8212; one follows Judith Flynn (an innkeeper in Seattle) and the other follows Emma Lord (newspaper editor\/owner in Alpine, Washington).  The Judth Flynn ones (the Bed &#038; Breakfast mysteries) are silly and the Emma Lord ones are a little more normal.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;5&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Denise Swanson<\/strong>: Writes about school psychologist Skye Denison in Scumble River, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;6&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Livia J. Washburn<\/strong>: Writes the Fresh Baked mysteries about Phyllis Newsom and her housemates in Weatherford, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8211;7&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Katherine Hall Page<\/strong>: Writes about rector&#8217;s wife\/caterer  Faith Fairchild in Aleford, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>(For more of this, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\/\">Conversion Diary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d share seven murder mystery authors I&#8217;ve discovered in the last year. &#8211;1&#8211; Leslie Meier: Writes about the adventures of Lucy Stone, a newspaper reporter in Tinker&#8217;s Cover, Maine. &#8211;2&#8211; Tamar Myers: Writes about the happenings of Magdalena &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines","category-daily-life","category-memes-and-link-ups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-Hm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}