People have been talking about Jill Malone! Her first novel, Red Audrey and the Roping, won the Bywater Prize for Fiction. And check out the review of her new novel, A Field Guide to Deception, in Jane and Jane magazine.
It is rare to find an author who knows how to write books that truly booby-trap her readers — books that start out feeling like a trip to the carnival on a sunny summer day, and take a left turn at the Tilt-a-Whirl and enter a dark place filled with oddly-shaped mirrors and distant, eerie peals of laughter. It’s even more rare to find an author who can usher her readers safely through that house of mirrors and back into the light of day.