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Liza Tully

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Liza Tully is an alternate pen name for Elisabeth Elo (for dark thrillers) and Elisabeth Panttaja Brink (for literary fiction). Her novel North of Boston received glowing critical acclaim, a Book of the Month selection, and an Indie Next Pick. Finding Katarina M. was praised by Publishers Weekly as a “tense and illuminating journey [that] will enthrall readers.”

She has worked as an editor at a children’s magazine, a counselor at a halfway house, and a lecturer in writing and literature at colleges in the Boston area. A graduate of Brown University, she earned a PhD in American Literature from Brandeis University, and is the author of scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as Cinderella and Walt Whitman. She has two grown children and liv ...more

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The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1)

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“Now I was quiet. “It’s because police departments have constraints,” she continued. “Constraints of time, money, manpower, politics, and public pressure. Even their vaunted forensic labs aren’t the magical places we think they are;”
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