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When I read Julia Spencer-Fleming’s first book, In the Bleak Midwinter, I was smitten. I was smitten with her writing, her characters, her sense of place, and her way of putting a mystery together. I reached out to her and a friendship was forged. Selling Julia’s books to customers was one of my favorite things to do as a bookseller, and I couldn’t be more delighted that she, Clare, and Russ have returned to print.

Robin Agnew for Mystery Scene: First, welcome back—I can't think of a series I missed more. You have been through a long difficult road to get to a new book. How hard was it to write Hid from Our Eyes?

Julia Spencer-Fleming: So hard. I started Hid from Our Eyes back in, what, 2013? 2014? I'm a slow writer at the best of times, and getting a book out every other year is a win for me. I was chugging along at my usual snail's pace when, at the end of 2014, my son called from college. He was miserable, overwhelmed, in the wrong place⁠—basically everything that could go wrong did, and of course he didn't tell us until he was at the breaking point.

So he came h

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Julia Spencer-Fleming

American novelist of Mystery fiction (born 1961)

Julia Spencer-Fleming (born June 26, 1961)[1][2] is an American novelist of mystery fiction. She has won the Agatha Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Award, Barry Award, Nero Award, and Gumshoe Award. She has also been a finalist for the Edgar Award. Her books feature Clare Fergusson, a retired helicopter pilot turned Episcopal priest and Russ Van Alstyne, a police chief. They are set in Millers Kill, a fictional town in upstate New York.

Spencer-Fleming was born in Plattsburgh, New York and has degrees from Ithaca College, George Washington University and the University of Maine School of Law. Spencer-Fleming lives in Buxton, Maine.[1][3]

Bibliography

Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series

  1. In the Bleak Midwinter (2002, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-98676-6, paperback ISBN 978-1250006516)
  2. A Fountain Filled With Blood (2003, hardcover ISBN 978-0-312-99543-0, paperback ISBN 978-0-312-99543-0)
  3. Out of the Deep
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    Julia Spencer-Fleming


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    Julia Spencer-Fleming, with one parent from Tuscaloosa, AL and the other from Argyle, NY, likes to think of herself multi-geographical. A former military brat, she grew up in places as diverse as Mobile, Rome, Stuttgart and Syracuse. A graduate of Ithaca College, George Washington University and the U Maine School of Law, she took up writing while still a stay-at-home mother of two. During the time it took to finish her first book, she got a full-time job at a Portland, Maine, law firm and had a third child. Julia didn't want to write yet another lawyer-sleuth, so she used her army past and a keen eye for the goings-on at her Episcopal church to create Clare Fergusson, first female priest in the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill. The result, In the Bleak Midwinter, made debut history when it won the St.Martin's/Malice Domestic contest, the Dilys Award from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, and the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for Best First

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