Lisa Unger & LAST GIRL GHOSTED on Wine Women & Writing with Pamela Fagan Hutchins

10/20/21 • 22 min

Crime and Wine: Novelist Chats with Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Lisa Unger and Pamela Fagan Hutchins talk about LAST GIRL GHOSTED, online dating, ghosting, and the ageless pursuit of relationships on Wine Women & Writing.

Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author. With books published in thirty languages and millions of copies sold worldwide, she is widely regarded as a master of suspense. Her latest novel is LAST GIRL GHOSTED.

LAST GIRL GHOSTED:

"A five-alarm fire of a situation...the surprises keep coming." —The New York Times

Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45

She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him—hard. It happens sometimes, a powerful connection with a perfect stranger takes you by surprise. Could it be love?

But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared—profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted.

Maybe it was her fault. She shared too much, too fast. But isn't that always what women think—that they're the ones to blame? Soon she learns there were others. Girls who thought they were in love. Girls who later went missing. She had been looking for a connection, but now she's looking for answers. Chasing a digital trail into his dark past—and hers—she finds herself on a dangerous hunt. And she's not sure whether she's the predator—or the prey.

For more info on Lisa and her books, visit http://lisaunger.com where you can also learn about her show, THREE GOOD THINGS

For more info on Pamela, this show, and her books, visit http://pamelafaganhutchins.com

Wine Women & Writing is a solely owned and copyrighted production of Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

Lisa Unger and Pamela Fagan Hutchins talk about LAST GIRL GHOSTED, online dating, ghosting, and the ageless pursuit of relationships on Wine Women & Writing.

LAST GIRL GHOSTED:

"A five-alarm fire of a situation...the surprises keep coming." —The New York Times

But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared—profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted.

For more info on Lisa and her books, visit http://lisaunger.com where you can also learn about her show, THREE GOOD THINGS

For more info on Pamela, this show, and her books, visit http://pamelafaganhutchins.com

Wine Women & Writing is a solely owned and copyrighted production of Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

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ME Browning & MERCY CREEK (Part 2: Micki says, Pamela says) on Wine Women & Writing

Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins for Part 2 of a hilarious "Micki says, Pamela says" segment in her chat with ME "Micki" Browning, author of the Jo Wyatt series and new release MERCY CREEK, as the two Mountain West mystery writers go head to head on "Confidential Never Asked Questions."

M.E. BROWNING writes the Jo Wyatt Mysteries. The first in the series, Shadow Ridge, won the Colorado Book Award for Mystery and the silver medal in the popular fiction category of the Florida Book Awards. The adventures continue in Mercy Creek, which launches in October 2021. Writing as Micki Browning, she penned the Agatha-nominated and award-winning Mer Cavallo mysteries, Adrift and Beached, and her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in anthologies, textbooks, diving and mystery magazines. Micki’s novels draw on her twenty-two years of experience in law enforcement. An FBI National Academy graduate, she retired as a captain before turning to a life of crime...fiction. Visit http://mebrowning.com to learn more.

MERCY CREEK:

In an idyllic Colorado town, a young girl goes missing—and the trail leads into the heart and mind of a remorseless killer.

The late summer heat in Echo Valley, Colorado turns lush greenery into a tinder dry landscape. When a young girl mysteriously disappears, long buried grudges rekindle. Of the two Flores girls, Marisa was the one people pegged for trouble. Her younger sister, Lena, was the quiet daughter, dutiful and diligent—right until the moment she vanished.

Detective Jo Wyatt is convinced the eleven-year-old girl didn’t run away and that a more sinister reason lurks behind her disappearance. For Jo, the case is personal, reaching far back into her past. But as she mines Lena’s fractured family life, she unearths a cache of secrets and half-lies that paints a darker picture.

As the evidence mounts, so do the suspects, and when a witness steps forward with a shocking new revelation, Jo is forced to confront her doubts, and her worst fears. Now, it's just a matter of time before the truth is revealed—or the killer makes another deadly move.

For more info on Pamela, the show, and her books, visit http://pamelafaganhutchins.com

Wine Women & Writing is a solely owned and copyrighted production of Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

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Cherie Priest & GRAVE RESERVATIONS on Wine Women & Writing with Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Join the chat as the very funny Cherie Priest visits Wine Women & Writing with Pamela Fagan Hutchins to discuss her new release, GRAVE RESERVATIONS, along with dogs, cats, and comfort TV.

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective solve a murder in this quirky mystery in the vein of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files and Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series.

About Cherie:

I write novels. I mean, I do other things too – but the books are probably the reason you’re reading this. So here goes.

To date, I’ve had 24 full-length projects published. My most recent books are The Toll, The Agony House, and The Family Plot. My best-known book is probably Boneshaker (2009) – which was nominated for a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award. Boneshaker also won the PNBA Award, as well as the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

On a more personal note – in 2006 I moved from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Seattle, Washington. Then in 2012, I moved back to Tennessee. In 2017, I moved back to Seattle – where I live at present with my husband, two dogs, and a very large cat we call the House Yeti.

It’s kind of a long story.

I was born in Tampa, Florida, on the day Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. I’m inordinately fond of zombies, trashy goth music, and cheap red wine. I have a phobic aversion to unfinished ceramics, an allergy to yellow dye #7, and a morbid fear of sloths.

For further stats, check my Wikipedia entry. It’s mostly correct, though often at least partially wrong – and routinely out of date. Wikipedia won’t let me fix anything, even my occupations, publications, or graduation years. Apparently I’m not qualified to address such matters of hearsay.

GRAVE RESERVATIONS:

Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. When Leda, sole proprietor of Foley's Flights of Fancy, impulsively re-books Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt’s flight, her life changes in ways she couldn’t have predicted.

After watching his original plane blow up from the safety of the airport, Grady realizes that Leda’s special abilities could help him with a cold case he just can’t crack.

Despite her scattershot premonitions, she agrees for a secret reason: her fiancé’s murder remains unsolved. Leda’s psychic abilities couldn’t help the case several years before, but she’s been honing her skills and drawing a crowd at her favorite bar’s open-mic nights, where she performs Klairvoyant Karaoke—singing whatever song comes to mind when she holds people’s personal effects.

Now joined by a rag-tag group of bar patrons and pals alike, Leda and Grady set out to catch a killer—and learn how the two cases that haunt them have more in common than they ever suspected.

For more info on Cherie, visit http://cheriepriest.com

For more info on Pamela, visit http://pamelafaganhutchins.com

Wine Women & Writing is a solely owned and copyrighted production of Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.