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Francesca Christian with On the Horizon youtube series interviewed Lynn C. Miller about mystery writing, including common plot devices to hook your reader, examples in the genre worthy of study, as well as new trends.
Lynn C. Miller joined KTAL radio’s Lynn Moorer to discuss her mystery novel, The Unmasking, a story of university politics, intrigue, dark comedy, and melodrama featuring a trio of friends and colleagues who, after a college dean dies in a suspicious accident, try to puzzle out who is behind his death.
Lynn C. Miller will read from her new mystery novel, The Unmasking, November 21, 7–8:30pm MT, as a guest of SOMOS’s annual November Prose Month celebration. Details and Zoom link are here.
Join Lynn C. Miller December 1, 6:45–8:30pm CT, for a discussion of her new book The Unmasking with BookWoman. Click here for Zoom details.
The Unmasking by Lynn C. Miller
ISBN 978-0-8263-6171-4 | $19.95 paper | 246 pp., 6 × 9 | Oct 2020
You’ve described this novel as a “twist on the locked-room mystery.” What appealed to you About that type of mystery, and how did you reimagine it for The Unmasking?
Many mysteries are set in isolated places where all the characters––including the suspects and the perpetrator(s)––are stuck together. As in the Gothic novel, there’s only one way in and one way out. In the locked-room mystery, someone is killed inside a room, and it isn’t apparent how the murderer got in, did the deed, and exited. Agatha Christie was a master of this kind of claustrophobic setting, which has always intrigued me as a novelist as the stakes steadily rise.
[Read more…] about Q&A with Lynn C. Miller, author of The UnmaskingRegister for this Crowdcast event here. The event begins at 9pm (MT), Nov. 9.
Lynn C. Miller’s new novel, The Unmasking (UNM Press), explores themes including feminism, queer identity, women’s suffrage, and the politics of academia. Lynn will be in conversation with her friend Francois Bereud, a professor at San Diego Miramar College.