Ashley Elston On How To Write A Whodunnit Heist Novel

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Happy New Year! The first episode of the year is a truly terrific mystery. Entertaining in the extreme, this is a whodunnit that breaks the mold. Ashley Elston, its author, has written plenty of quality YA titles, but First Lie Wins is her first adult mystery. In this game of cat and mouse, the reader is constantly asking which character is telling the truth….and we never figured it out. A great start to the new year, this book invites you to just relax and enjoy the ride. We sure did. We are taking next week off…but please come back the week after when we talk to author Kaveh Akbar, who has authored the intriguing and funny novel, Martyr! Books mentioned in this week's episode: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston The Lying Woods by Ashley Elston This is Our Story by Ashley Elston Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier The Trackers by Charles Frazier Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Toy car to Danny from me.
0:02.3	Fluffy slippers to Emma from me?
0:04.7	The Cheesy McChisbee.
0:06.0	To me from me.
0:07.7	Treat yourself to the new Cheesy McChisbee from McDonald's
0:10.1	with the delicious cheese sauce, cheese slices and crispy onions.
0:13.2	Go on, you've earned it.
0:16.0	Available until the 5th of Jan, served from 11am,
0:18.0	participating in restaurants only.
0:19.1	Subjects of availability.
0:28.5	Hello and welcome to the bookcase.
0:29.8	Happy New Year to you.
0:36.8	If you're still holding on to your New Year's resolutions, congratulations, and if you broke them, I hope it was worth it and it was fun.
0:38.5	I am Kate Gibson.
0:39.7	And I'm Charlie Gibson.
0:41.2	You'd have had to break them in record time.
0:43.4	I mean, it's only a few days into the New Year.
0:48.2	So I don't know what the statute of limitations is on wishing people happy New Year.
0:50.6	You know, we're into the first week in January.
0:53.3	I think it's still okay to say Happy New Year to people.
0:59.6	And so we do say Happy New Year. We have a very happy New Year book to start off the year. It's been a stressful Christmas season, I think, as joyous as the season is, but we've got it fun. I hate fun as an
1:05.5	adjective, but we have an enjoyable first read that I think you'll get a kick out of. Good mystery. It's called First Lie
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