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Laura Benedict

Q&A with Laura Benedict, author of The Stranger Inside

By John Valeri

February 4, 2019

Laura Benedict is the Edgar- and ITW Thriller Award-nominated author of eight novels of suspense, ranging from the cozy charms of Small Town Trouble (for the Familiar Legacy series) to her Bliss House gothic trilogy. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine as well as anthologies including Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, The Lineup:…

Review: The Abandoned Heart by Laura Benedict

By Neliza Drew

October 13, 2016

Three women. A cursed house. Generations of lives at stake. The Abandoned Heart by Laura Benedict—the 3rd novel in the acclaimed Bliss House series—reveals the secret that started it all. The Abandoned Heart by Laura Benedict is an impressively sprawling ghost story, weaving together the lives (and deaths) experienced by the women of Bliss House…

Fresh Meat: Bliss House by Laura Benedict

By Neliza Drew

June 11, 2014

Bliss House by Laura Benedict focuses on a historic Virginia house built in 1887, and despite its blood-stained and mysterious past, it remains alive and vibrant (available June 15, 2014). Bliss House is a creepy, Southern gothic ghost story from writer Laura Benedict. It’s also a mystery, a whodunit and a howdunit. It’s a story…

Murder to Mil-Spec

Crime for a Cause: Crime Fiction Anthologies for Charity

By Laura K. Curtis

August 30, 2012

For several years, Wolfmont Press produced an annual holiday crime fiction anthology that benefited Toys for Tots.  2009 marked the last of these, with the 2010 charity anthology—called Murder to Mil-Spec—benefiting Homes for Our Troops, instead. These were fabulous anthologies, and if you can find a copy you should grab one; they were limited in…

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