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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Robert Dugoni, author of Murder One

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Robert Dugoni, author of Murder One
(Touchstone/Simon and Schuster)

Murder One is the fourth novel in the David Sloane series. Thirteen months after the murder of his wife, Sloane makes an appearance at a legal event. He runs into a former adversary, Barclay Reid. Reid is suffering from her own tragedy, the loss of her daughter to a drug overdose. When the dealer responsible walks from a federal courtroom, Reid turns to Sloane to go after the dealer in a civil action.

Sloane is reluctant as he is developing feelings for Reid. Sloane takes on the case. Before it gets going, the dealer is found with a bullet in the back of his head and all the evidence points to Reid. Now Reid wants Sloane, the “lawyer who does not lose”, to defend her. Sloane reluctantly agrees but soon finds Reid to be a woman of many secrets.

Reviewers are calling the book a cross between Presumed Innocent and Basic Instinct.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Murder One?

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree

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Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree
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Historian Buzzy Jackson’s SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist (Simon & Schuster: July 2010) offers a lively tour through the strange and fascinating subculture of genealogy buffs – a quest that begins with questions about her own family tree, then takes her from the archives of the Mormon church, to a dedicated “genealogy cruise” and even into a lab for a DNA test — all to figure out why the pursuit of our past fascinates so many Americans.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write Shaking the Family Tree?

Buzzy Jackson: I spent seven years getting a PhD in History from UC Berkeley and, during that time, students I taught often asked me why there weren’t more Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Specialist Shoshana Johnson, author of I’m Still Standing

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ShoShana Johnson, author of I’m Still Standing: From Captive Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home
(Touchstone Books / Simon & Schuster)

In the earliest days of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003, the world was shaken by reports of a deadly ambush on a U.S. Army convoy on its way to Baghdad. The 507th Maintenance Company, a combat service support unit, was brutally attacked by a well-armed mob of civilians. Eleven people were killed; Shoshana Johnson, an army cook, and four others were captured and held prisoner for 22 days.

I’m Still Standing: From Captive Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home is Johnson’s extraordinary chronicle of her captivity, while providing a revealing eyewitness account of her experiences as a POW. It is a rare view of one of the key incidents of the war in Iraq. Told with candor and insight, I’m Still Standing is Johnson’s deeply personal account of how she survived.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the idea and inspiration to write I’m Still Standing?

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