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Michael Callahan | A rising Oscar-nominated actress vanishes without a trace
Author Guest / July 24, 2024

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE LOST LETTERS FROM MARTHA’S VINEYARD   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? In 1959, a rising Oscar-nominated actress vanishes without a trace. Sixty years later, a young woman is stunned to discover the grandmother who raised her was, in fact, this actress—and sets out to solve the mystery of what happened the summer that changed her grandmother’s life.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Other writers start their ideas with their characters or plots—I always start my books with where they take place. Because when I look for a novel to read, if I am not interested in the location, I tend to pass it by. My first book took place in Manhattan in the 1950s; the second in Atlantic City, Manhattan, and Newport in the late 1940s. I clearly have a thing for glamorous midcentury locales.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Well, I have two dual stories going, one in 1959 and one in 2018, so I have two different heroines. But yes—though I think I would prefer Mercy, the slightly more prominent of the…