Her mystery Famous in Cedarville received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was called "a clever little whodunnit" in The New York Times Book Review. She is the author of five other books, including the poetry collections Instructions for Killing the Jackal and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Wright was the senior poetry editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade and currently teaches at Bellevue University. She holds degrees from New York University and Columbia University. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her family.
At CrimeReads Wright tagged eight books that "use established narratives, but approach them from unexpected angles, often violent ones." One title on the list:
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. JamesRead about the other entries on the list.
In some ways, this novel reads like an extended denouement—we see the Darcys from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice settled in their marriage. Unlike most denouements, though, this one introduces a new conflict, i.e. a murder. Could it be that George Wickham is more than a notorious cad—is he also a cold-blooded killer? In her final book, P. D. James offers up a twisty investigation that will delight both Austen fans and her own.
Death Comes to Pemberley is among Ronald Frame's top ten reimagined classics.
--Marshal Zeringue
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