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Paula K. Niziolek

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Mystery, Nonfiction

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Paula Niziolek has spent much of her life reading and writing under the towering trees of the Pacific Northwest. She has a love for pie, small towns, family history, and the possibility of ghosts. When she’s not reading or writing, she can usually be found in the kitchen, baking up a sweet treat. Paula lives on a small farm in southwestern Washington with her husband, two furry dogs, two naughty goats, fifteen cackling chickens, and one adventurous kitty cat.
The Zen Goat cozy mystery series, written under the pen name Janna Rollins, forthcoming from Level Best Books.
The Hometown Hardware cozy mystery series, written under the pen name Paula Charles, coming soon from Crooked Lane Books.

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Paula’s Quotes

“I hate Earl Grey with a passion. It's like drinking stale perfume...”
― Gil McNeil, The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club

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“It's much easier than I thought it would be."
Most things in knitting are, really.”
― Gil McNeil, The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club

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“One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time for all sorts of adventures.”
― Audrey Niffenegger

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“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

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“We all do stupid, cruel things as children. I remember I once took a neighbor's dog and shut it in my house, then told the little girl her dog had been picked up by the dog catcher and destroyed. I still wake up at three in the morning seeing her face. I tracked her down about ten years ago to say I was sorry but she'd been killed in a car accident."
"You have to forgive yourself", said Gamache, holding up Being.
"You're right, of course. But maybe I don't want to. Maybe that's something I don't want to lose. My own private hell. Horrible, but mine.”
― Louise Penny

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