1–What is the title of your latest release? THE CURSE OF PENRYTH HALL 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The Curse of Penryth Hall is a country house murder mystery set in the first few years after the First World War. It’s centered on the adventures of Ruby Vaughn, an unconventional American bookseller, who is sent deep into the Cornish countryside to deliver a box of old books and ends up with a dead baronet and a centuries old curse on her hands. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’d actually intended to set the book in Wales, and my heroine Ruby was going to be a folklore scholar. During my research process, I was reading accounts from 19th and 20th century folklorists, in order to ground myself in what I thought was going to be my heroine’s academic worldview. But as I read more, I kept finding these intriguing stories of Pellars appearing in the Cornish folk tradition and I ended up shifting the entire story to Cornwall instead just so I could include a Pellar in the story. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely, Ruby…