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B.V. Lawson

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BV Lawson is a former classical musician turned radio announcer, who also worked for the Discovery Channel for over a decade. Now a full-time freelance writer, she’s penned radio and television scripts, articles for various publications, and won awards for her over two dozen published stories and poems. Thanks to the influence of library genes handed down from her mother, she created the blog In Reference to Murder which contains over 3,000 links for mystery readers and writers. She’s currently working on a series of novels set in various locations in and around the mid-Atlantic and can be found on her author site, bvlawson.com.

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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - An Air That Kills a/k/a The Soft Talkers

Today is the third in a series of the special features coordinated through Patti Abbott's Friday's "Forgotten" Books. The first was Donald Westlake, the second John D. McDonald, and today it's Margaret Millar (1915-1994). Millar was married to Kenneth Millar, better known as crime fiction author Ross MacDonald, but despite having an Edgar Award and over 25 novels to her credit (with some critic...

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Average rating: 4.17 · 58 ratings · 12 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Ill-Gotten Games 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Grave Madness: Three Scott Drayco Mysteries 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Vengeance is Blind 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Deadly Decisions: 5 Tales of Crime and Suspense 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Death on Holiday 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Northern Haunts by Timothy Deal (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pamela K. Kinney (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Mark Leslie (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Grimm Tales by John Kenyon, Nigel Bird, Kaye George (Goodreads Author) 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Chesapeake Crimes by Donna Andrews (Editor), Barb Goffman (Editor), Marcia Talley (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	PMS by Lisa Rene Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Caitlyn Hunter (Goodreads Author), Claire Applewhite (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Deadly Ink Anthology 2007 by Debby Buchanan (Editor), Ceridwen Levin, Judith R. O'Sullivan 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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