Murder with a Conscience
Julia Spencer-Fleming is the author of
In the Bleak Midwinter,
and A Fountain Filled with Blood, released this month by St.
Martin's Minotaur. In the Bleak Midwinter, which came out last
year, was nominated for the 2003 Agatha Award and is the winner of the
2003 Dilys Award. The newly released sequel, A Fountain Filled with
Blood, is a Borders bookstore "Original Voices" selection for April.
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The author's debut success owes much to its chillingly accurate portrayal of life and death in a small upstate New York town. "Millers Kill is an amalgam of the towns and villages that I knew as a child." she says. "My family settled in the Adirondack Piedmont in the 1720s and I spent a lot of time tramping around those hills, hearing stories of Indian massacres and Revolutionary battles and eavesdropping on the small-town gossip about who was pregnant and whose dairy was failing. That part of New York, where poor farms and Saratoga money and the mountains all come together, has always held a bone-deep fascination for me."
Along with the Millers Kill series, she has plans for a thriller involving a stand-off at a snow-bound prison. She says life in upstate New York and Maine has given her an affinity for wintery murder and mayhem. "You realize how snow and ice can rule your life. The weather, like any well-written villain, is both fascinating and deadly."
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A Fountain Filled with Blood
Julia Spencer-Fleming's second mystery, A Fountain Filled with Blood,
finds our sleuth, former Army helicopter pilot and Episcopal priest
Clare Fergusson, faced with the brutal murder of a gay man.
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