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SinC Author – Ellen Hart
March 15, 2012
$125From the Learning Life catalog:
First, on February 2, you will discuss False Mermaid, Erin Hart’s third novel featuring pathologist Nora Gavin and Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire. Says Hart, “I’ve always been drawn to complex, character-driven crime novels. I’m interested in character and motivation, of course, but my particular fascination is with consequences, with the fact that a single event from the past can continue to send ripples into the present and thefuture.”
Next, on February 23, the focus will turn to Northwest Angle, the 11th book in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger. O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County in northern Minnesota, is a man of tremendous resource and mixed heritage. Part Irish-American and part Ojibwe, he straddles two cultures that, more often than not, are at extreme, sometimes violent, odds. Krueger says the novel “deals, at heart, with family and with the question of how families heal after great trauma. But make no mistake, it’s also a book firmly rooted in the crime genre. I believe it’s the most suspenseful novel I’ve written.”
Finally, on March 15, you will discuss The Lost Women of Lost Lake, Ellen Hart’s 19th crime novel featuring restaurateur and part-time sleuth, Jane Lawless. Says Hart, “I’ve always felt that mystery is the quality that keeps us reading any novel…a mystery is set squarely in the moral universe. People often ask that question: What happened to the social novel? My answer is that it’s still here, still alive and well in the form of modern crime fiction.”