Susan Breen
Susan Breen is the bestselling author of the Maggie Dove mystery series. She is especially honored to have won the Westchester Library Association's Washington Irving Award for "readability, literary quality, and wide general appeal."
The Maggie Dove series is set in a small village in the Hudson Valley in New York. It's a beautiful place, but it does have its secrets.
Maggie Dove is an amateur detective. Drawn into solving a crime when her dear friend is accused of murder, she discovers she has a knack for it. Maybe it comes from her years of being a Sunday School teacher, which have taught her that most people are a mixture of good and bad. Sometimes she feels like being a detective is her way of figuring out the world.
Susan Breen is also the author of The Fiction Class and a lot of short stories. She teaches novel-writing at Gotham Writers. She lives in a small village in the Hudson Valley with her husband, two very spoiled cockapoo dogs, and two somewhat hostile cats.
“Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.”
“She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.”