Delaware, she began a decades-long career in journalism that has taken her around the country and to more than a dozen other countries, including several conflict zones. Her first novel in the Lola Wicks mystery series, Montana, won the Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction and the High Plains Book Award, and was a finalist for the Shamus Award, an International Thriller Award and a Silver Falchion Award. She has since released four other books in the Lola Wicks series and three standalone novels.
Her new novel is Best Be Prepared, the fourth book in the Nora Best series.
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At CrimeReads Florio tagged six thrillers where natural disasters loom large, including:
I’ve always thought of Dana Stabenow’s thoroughly enjoyable Alaska mysteries as sneakily educational because I come away better informed about the intertwined environmental and political issues driving them. My favorite, Breakup, uses the tensions that run rampant by the end of the long Alaska winter to heighten the suspense throughout. Fact: While most places see their highest crime rates in summer, in Alaska the murder rates can spike in late spring during—you guessed it—breakup.Read about the other books Florio tagged.
--Marshal Zeringue
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