Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Six top Midwestern mystery novels

Nicole Baart is the mother of five children from four different countries. The cofounder of a nonprofit organization, One Body One Hope, she lives in a small town in Iowa.

Her novels including You Were Always Mine, Little Broken Things, The Beautiful Daughters, and the newly released Everything We Didn’t Say.

At CrimeReads Baart tagged six top "mysteries set in and written by fantastic Midwestern authors," including:
The Monsters We Make by Kali White

The Des Moines Register paper boy kidnappings of the early 1980’s were the inspiration for Kali White’s The Monsters We Make. White was just a child growing up in Iowa when the kidnappings took place, and the immediacy of the fear and uncertainty she felt as a girl is taut throughout each chapter. Told from multiple perspectives, with characters that leap off the page and a storyline that haunts, White captures a moment in time that unraveled the trust of a close-knit community. We’re taught to be wary of strangers, but what if the people we should be worried about are closer to home?
Read about the other entries on the list.

Q&A with Kali White.

The Page 69 Test: The Monsters We Make.

--Marshal Zeringue