Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts | a novel by Laura Benedict

"Spellbinding." --Publisher's Weekly

"Where sins of the spirit meet sins of the flesh and no character is left unscathed."
--Jonathan Santlofer, bestselling author of The Murder Notebook

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Isabella Moon | a novel by Laura Benedict

An amalgam of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Peter Straub's Ghost Story, this mystery/thriller will simultaneously tug at the heartstrings and scare the bejesus out of readers. In a word: unforgettable."
--Chicago Tribune

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I'm appearing at the Southern Illinois Women's Health Conference, John A. Logan College on September 18th.

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There's a wonderful Latin phrase-- in medias res --that means in the middle of things. To my mind, that's always the best place to begin a story...