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Liza Tully

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Born

Los Angeles, The United States

Website

https://www.lizatully.com

Genre

Mystery, Humor and Comedy, Fiction

Member Since

July 2025

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Liza Tully lives in Boston, MA with her husband and their dog, Fred. She is a firm believer in reading escapist fiction that makes you laugh as well as think. She also writes suspense as Elisabeth Elo and literary fiction as Elisabeth Panttaja Brink. Her novels have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus; have been featured on NPR and People Magazine; and have been honored as an Indie Next Pick and a Book of the Month Club selection. She likes to hike to coffee shops and do many other things, but mostly she likes books. She has been reading and writing all her life and still feels like she has just begun.

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Average rating: 3.59 · 5,010 ratings · 813 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 4,623 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forty-Year Grudge (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries #2) 3.65 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Merritt & Blunt Mysteries (2 books)
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Liza Tully liked Debbie Rozier's review of The Forty-Year Grudge (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries #2): "This is the second mystery featuring Baby Boomer, Audrey Merritt and Gen Zer, Olivia Blunt. I listened to the first book in the series (THE WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE AND HER JUST OKAY ASSISTANT). You can easily read this newest book as a stand alone." Read more of this review »
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Liza Tully and 2 other people liked Tammy's review of The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1): "The World’s Greatest Detective & Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully is a fascinating & unique mystery novel about a famous detective & her recently hired assistant as these opposites take on a case. The matchup of the older famous detective & her " Read more of this review »
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I had a lot of fun writing this book. Loved the characters and especially the relationship between Aubrey and Olivia where Olivia starts to come into her own as a detective. The mystery they have to solve isn't easy. There are actually three crimes t ...more
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“Now I was quiet. “It’s because police departments have constraints,” she continued. “Constraints of time, money, manpower, politics, and public pressure. Even their vaunted forensic labs aren’t the magical places we think they are;”
― Liza Tully, The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

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