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Iris Yamashita | What Was Once Thought An Accident Looks More Like Murder
Author Guest / February 12, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? VILLAGE IN THE DARK 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in a hiking accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged pointing to murder–and she will stop at nothing to find the truth. Intertwined in the story are Ellie Wright, the innkeeper at Point Mettier (where all 205 residents live in a single high-rise building) whose estranged son has just been found dead, and Mia Upash, a half-indigenous young waitress from an off-the-grid village run by women. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Since this book is a sequel to City Under One Roof, I knew that I was going to include the fictional city of Point Mettier. I also had had an idea for an isolated community run by women and Alaska is the perfect place to set it in. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I would definitely like to meet her, but she would be too intense for me to be a best friend. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Relentless, haunted, righteous 6–What’s something you learned…