TY - BOOK AU - Zackheim,Victoria TI - Private investigations: mystery writers on the secrets, riddles, and wonders in their lives SN - 9781580059213 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Seal Press KW - Novelists, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Novelists, English KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - Authorship KW - Detective and mystery stories, English KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Introduction : solving the mystery; Victoria Zackheim --; Ghosted; Hallie Ephron --; Plot twists : this writer's life; Jeffrey Deaver --; An extra child; Sulari Gentill --; Field notes à la Maigret from Paris; Cara Black --; Lydia and Jack; Connie May Fowler --; The land of the morning calm (and other military mysteries); Martin Limón --; The clay that we shape; William Kent Kruege --; Origins and destinations; Ausma Zehanat Khan --; A trick of the light; Kristen Lepionka --; The mystery of deception; Lynn Cahoon --; The long shadow of war; Rhys Bowen --; I don't know this word; Rachel Howzell Hallie --; The beams keep falling; Steph Cha --; Writing about war; Jacqueline Winspear --; Can we live without mystery?; Tasha Alexander --; Godfathers, Nancy Drea, and cats; Carole Nelson Douglas --; The mystery of my lost voice; Caroline Leavitt --; Remembering the dead; Charles Todd --; Nuns, magic, and Steven King; Robert Dugoni --; I want to be a magician; Anne Perry N2 - "In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she lost her voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from writers' imaginations, and more"-- ER -