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J.C. Paulson

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Saskatoon, Canada
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Dorothy Sayers, P.D. James, Martha Grimes, Louise Penny

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June 2017


J.C. Paulson thinks a mystery can, and perhaps should, also be a love story.
Switching from fact (journalism) into fiction (novels, mostly) later in life, it seemed a natural thing to combine the two. Evil versus good. Hate versus love. Think Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, and a host of cozy mystery couples — not that her novels are very cozy.
Changing the world would be nice, too. Fiction allows us to swallow the bitter pills of social injustice and still (hopefully) be entranced, entertained and entangled in their solutions.
A rabid reader of mystery novels, J.C. Paulson has long admired the works of Dorothy Sayers, P.D. James, Louise Penny and Ann Cleeves.
She lives in a rambling bungalow on a quiet street in Saskatoon, Canada with he
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J.C. Paulson Update: I'm presently publishing Broken Through, my sequel to Adam's Witness. It will hit Amazon Sept. 27 in Kindle, and hopefully paperback within th…moreUpdate: I'm presently publishing Broken Through, my sequel to Adam's Witness. It will hit Amazon Sept. 27 in Kindle, and hopefully paperback within that week.


I'm about 40K words into the sequel to Adam's Witness. Where the first book was inspired by a church's action against a gay choir (several years ago), the second one deals with the death of a woman and the subsequent search for her killer, and the questions around why women are murdered or go missing. I also advance the love story begun in the first book.(less)
J.C. Paulson No. I cannot read, write nor watch horror.
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I became a character in a book

And then found myself in a group of new friends.

In this case, Number 13 was lucky.

Sometime in the first half of 2022, I received a message from author K.T. McGivens. To my extreme (and happy) surprise, she admitted that she was writing the thirteenth novel in her Katie Porter cozy period mystery series . . . and I was in it.

Was I okay with that?

Well, K.T. You think?

Somehow, K.T. semi-transformed m

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"What a powerful tale! A mix of mystery, thriller and romance. Just perfect!"
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"The Past Love…

...a new rendition.

I am going to reiterate that I was with what many of the other reviewers have mentioned. I believed The Past Love was going to continue directly from The Future Bride.

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"Reading The Past Love is like hanging out with beloved friends, but at a whole new party. When I first picked this up I assumed the events of the story would *follow* those of MacLeod's previous novel, The Future Bride. However, I quickly realized th" Read more of this review »
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Lily Lawson is largely known for her poetry, which I love.
Therefore, I was agog to find out how that unique voice would translate into fiction, in this case a collection of short stories.
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I’m afraid that I, ah, sort of threatened the author at the end of my review for her previous book in this series, The Past Love.
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“I will say that there had better be a book three, Ms. MacLeod. Or else.”
I feel terrible about it now. So r
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I fell in love, head over heels, with Ferghus in the first book of J.G. MacLeod's series — The Future Bride.
It didn't take long before I cracked the spine on The Past Love. I wanted more of the 15th century Scottish hero, scarred, ethical, handsome,
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I'm a Very Big Fan of Kathleen Marple Kalb and her fabulous cozy mysteries. Therefore, when I learned one of the stories in this anthology featured her operatic detective Diva Ella Shane, I was in.
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