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Lori Duffy Foster

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Lori Duffy Foster is a former crime reporter who writes and lives in the hills of Northern Pennsylvania. NEVER LET GO, her debut thriller, released in December from Level Best Books. A DEAD MAN'S EYES, book one in her Lisa Jamison Mysteries Series, was an Agatha Award nominee and a finalist for the Shamus Award. Book 2 in the series, NEVER BROKEN, released in April of 2022. Look for NO TIME TO BREATHE, book 3, in April. Her short fiction has appeared in the journal Aethlon, and in the anthologies Short Story America and Childhood Regained. Her nonfiction has appeared in Healthy Living, Running Times, Literary Mama, Crimespree and Mountain Home magazines. Lori is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, The Historical Novel ...more

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Lori Duffy Foster I am not sure I had a choice. Writing was therapy for me as a kid. I got into trouble a lot (temper!), which means I spent loads of time in my room, w…moreI am not sure I had a choice. Writing was therapy for me as a kid. I got into trouble a lot (temper!), which means I spent loads of time in my room, writing and sketching to calm down. I’d get so immersed that I would forget to come downstairs when my punishment was over. I also won a local poetry contest as a kid and wrote radio commercials for my Catholic elementary school (good ole’ St. Bernard’s), so it would seem logical that I would become a writer, but I fought it. I grew up with very little money and writers don’t earn much. I didn’t want to be poor. I tried studying geo-chemistry in college, but I was addicted to English classes. Finally, I gave in, studying creative writing and communications, which prepared me for my first career as a journalist. I always knew I would go back to fiction though.(less)
Lori Duffy Foster I was covering a house fire one night on a city street in Syracuse when an obviously pregnant 15-year-old began talking with me. She was in foster car…moreI was covering a house fire one night on a city street in Syracuse when an obviously pregnant 15-year-old began talking with me. She was in foster care, but she was determined to keep the baby and make something of herself. She struck me as extraordinary—smart and capable—and her name seemed familiar. I looker her up in my old notes when I returned to the newsroom. She shared a name and age with a girl who had witnessed a fatal game of Russian roulette. I forgot her name over time, but I never forgot her. She is the main inspiration for the novel along with a couple of colleagues who were single moms and successful, one with a toddler-in-tow and no father in the picture. That is not easy in journalism.(less)
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A DEAD MAN’S EYES is a Shamus Award Finalist!

I was sleep-deprived (teen boys nearing the end of the school year) Thursday morning when I sat down to check my messages and emails. So it didn’t sink in when I first saw the message from friend and mystery author Bruce Coffin congratulating me as a Shamus Award finalist.

Was I reading that right?

Was the message intended for me?

Must be a mistake.

Then I googled the 2022 finalists for the awards, w

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