One of my favorite things to do is read. My childhood love of historical fiction has recently morphed into an obsession with local fiction. Taking the sights, sounds and styles of the District and creating a story to complement them doesn’t seem a tough task to me. What better location to base your novel than a social, political town with a charity addiction??
New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock agrees with me. As you’ll hear when we interview her on The District Dish in a few weeks, DC provides the perfect backdrop for about a billion plotlines… so why not a multiple murder mystery that takes place in your own neighborhood??
Hitchcock combines Georgetown high society (with its not entirely fictitious cast of characters), politics, and scandalous secrets to give us a page turner that I couldn’t put down. From lunching at Cafe Milano to walking the C & O Canal, attending performances at the Kennedy Center to shopping at some of my favorite local boutiques – not only was Mortal Friends a story that we could have lived… when you read it, you’ll realize that you probably know some of these people, too!
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