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<\/a><\/p>\nFig. #12. A Maine book needs the big picture. <\/strong><\/p>\n Kathy mentioned that author Julia Spencer-Fleming lives in ME, but the stories with a female Episcopalian priest detective take place in upstate NY. (She\u2019s also won a lot of mystery writer awards and has a blurb from Lee Child, both pluses.) Definitely worth a try. I am not extending the lives-in-Maine criterion to Nicholson Baker who has a new book out about WW II drawn from stories in his rescued newspapers and, I think I read, now lives in South Berwick, ME, even if South Berwick was the home of Sarah Orne Jewett who surely set her classic novella, The Country of the Pointed Firs<\/a><\/strong> My niece is reading a Dennis Lehane mystery that mentions Maine, which is good, but she didn\u2019t include the title. A ME-mention is a good reason for Roseledge Books to have that particular title in books or series set elsewhere.<\/p>\n Fig. #13. A Maine book needs details. Great yarn colors, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n Connolly, John. The Unquiet<\/a> Tim sent me the 2007 Annual Report of the Town of St. George, Maine,<\/em><\/strong> the Mainest book I know, and it is the perfect reminder of names, deaths, and taxes paid and that soon I\u2019ll be back in Tenants Harbor for the summer.<\/p>\n \t\t\t <\/a>Fig. #14. A really good Maine book needs a reminder of perfect summer days (especially during this April night’s Minnesota snowstorm), e.g. Roseledge Books from Tenants Harbor. A Maine book has to have within it whatever the reader knows Maine to be. I don’t know if it’s better for the book be an anticipatory read, a withdrawal read, or a reminder that “away” places of the heart … Continue reading
\n Spencer-Fleming, Julia. All Mortal Flesh<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\nI know from the NYTimes Bestseller List that a Maine PI is the series character, and I\u2019m guessing that the mystery is mostly set in ME, even though author John Connolly lives in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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