Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. Home at Night, the fifth book in the series, was inspired by her volunteer work as a Natural Resources Steward of New Hampshire. Along with her love of nature, Munier credits the hero dogs of Mission K9 Rescue, her own rescue dogs, and a deep affection for New England as her series’ major influences. A literary agent by day, she’s also written three popular books on writing: Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, and Writing with Quiet Hands, as well as Happier Every Day and the memoir Fixing Freddie: The True Story of a Boy, a Mom, and a Very, Very Bad Beagle.
[Coffee with a Canine: Paula Munier & Bear; My Book, The Movie: A Borrowing of Bones; The Page 69 Test: A Borrowing of Bones; Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2019); My Book, The Movie: Blind Search; The Page 69 Test: Blind Search; My Book, The Movie: The Hiding Place; The Page 69 Test: The Hiding Place; Q&A with Paula Munier; My Book, The Movie: The Wedding Plot; The Page 69 Test: The Wedding Plot; Writers Read: Paula Munier (July 2022); Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2023); My Book, The Movie: Home at Night; The Page 69 Test: Home at Night; My Book, The Movie: The Night Woods; The Page 69 Test: The Night Woods; Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2024)]
Munier's new Mercy Carr mystery is The Night Woods.
At CrimeReads Munier tagged eight favorite "books and films and TV shows also informed by The Odyssey," including:
Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?Read about the other entries on the list.
I love Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series, and this entry is one of the very best. And its aspects inspired by The Odyssey are only part of the reason why.
When Will There Be Good News? is among the Christian Science Monitor's best novels of 2008.
--Marshal Zeringue