“Writers often disavow resemblances between themselves and their fictional characters.
But Colleen Shogan admits that she shares more than a few traits with the protagonist in her first novel, Stabbing in the Senate (Camel Press, $13.95). Like the fictional congressional staffer Kit Marshall, the Irwin native believes in the ideal of ‘government service and how it can make people’s lives better,’ says Shogan, who will appear Dec. 12 as a guest of Mystery Lovers Bookshop’s Coffee & Crime Series. ‘I think that’s what the attraction is.'”
New excerpt day! Check out the first chapter of Stabbing in the Senate by Colleen J. Shogan, a Pittsburgh native and D.C. insider (visiting Mystery Lovers Bookshop in December for a Coffee & Crime talk):
Posted by Littsburgh on Monday, November 16, 2015