My guest today is Marian Lanouette, a novelist raised in my own adoptive Brooklyn, but who now lives in New England. She shares with us how she became fascinated with the mystery/suspense genre. Marian's new book is If I Fail, the first in a series of Jake Carrington Mysteries. These stories combine mystery with elements of romance.
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I love a good mystery or puzzle. So it seemed
natural when I sat down to write that the genre would be
mystery/suspense/thriller. At an early
age I started reading. Unbeknown to my
parents I would read the New York Daily News because I had already read through
all my library books. A story caught my eye. It was the murder of eight young
women in Chicago.
The case terrified me, yet intrigued me. I wanted
the killer punished for his horrible acts. The reported frustrated with the
police started to comment in his column instead of reporting the news. At
dinner one night, I brought the subject up and each day I’d follow every story.
My parents were horrified and put a stop to my reading the Daily News each day.
I had to get my tidbits on the case from eavesdropping on the nightly news. How
the police caught up with the murderer and the trial that ensued which
intrigued me. It grabbed my attention and my imagination. To this day, I still check my closet before going to sleep. I believe it was on that day the mystery
lover was created.
Throughout the years, after the trial, I would take
every mystery written for children out of the library and gobble them up. As I
got older, my mind started creating stories. It wasn’t until recently that I
decided to send the stories in for publication. Submitting took a lot of courage.
I think I bled every time I got a rejection but I stayed the course and
eventually found my publisher who I love.
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You can purchase If I Fail directly from MuseItUp Publishing or from Amazon.
You can view the book trailer here.
