In the Lonely Backwater

I'm a little late blogging the launch of Valerie Nieman's In the Lonely Backwater--it came out May 10th from Regal House's Fitzroy imprint--because I've been focused on blogging adult fiction this year and In the Lonely Backwater is marketed as YA because the protagonist of this coming-of-age story is seventeen. But, of course, many novels for adults also feature seventeen-year-old protagonists, and the author has said that she didn't write it with a particular age group in mind. So--what's it about? Maggie, who loves natural history, lives with her alcoholic father on a houseboat, helping him manage the marina; but then her pretty cousin Charisse turns up dead at the marina and life gets much more complicated!

I'm very much looking forward to reading this, and in June Valerie Nieman, Edgar-nominated Erin Flanagan, and I will be appearing together at an author trifecta in the Dayton, Ohio area!