How much research did this require from you to make the history part of it ring true? I became intrigued by Mata Hari’s story and wanted Fiona to meet her. I take Fiona to Paris because there she meets the mysterious Mata Hari. It’s so much fun doing the historical research-I learn so many interesting tidbits, some of which are included in the novel. The first Fiona Figg novel (Betrayal at Ravenswick) is set in 1917. What inspired you to write a story set in 1917 Paris? Her next date might be with Madame Guillotine. When Fiona is found dressed as a bellboy holding a bloody paperknife over the body of a dead countess, it's not just her career that's on the block. Sent by the War Office to follow the notorious Black Panther, file clerk turned secret agent Fiona Figg is under strict orders not to get too close and not to wear any of her usual "get-ups."īut what self-respecting British spy can resist a good disguise? Within hours of her arrival in Paris, Fiona is up to her fake eyebrows in missing maids, jewel thieves, double agents, and high treason. Please give us a short introduction to what High Treason at the Grand Hotel is about. As our Author of the Day, she tells us all about her book, High Treason at the Grand Hotel. She has published in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and has been featured on ABC news, CSPAN books, the Canadian Broadcasting Network, and various radio programs.Kelly Oliver is the award-winning and bestselling author of three mystery series, including the Jessica James Mysteries, the Pet Detective Mysteries, and the Fiona Figg Mysteries. Her latest nonfiction book, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape won a Choice Magazine Award for Outstanding title. When she’s not writing novels, Kelly is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and the author of fifteen nonfiction books, and over 100 articles, on issues such as the refugee crisis, campus rape, women and the media, animals and the environment. Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter, the first in the series, won a Reader’s Choice Award for Children’s Mysteries.īetrayal at Ravenswick, A Fiona Figg Mystery is the first in her historical cozy mystery series. She is the author of the middle grade mystery series, The Pet Detective Mysteries. JACKAL was a finalist for the Mystery and Mayhem Award and for the Silver Falchion Award. FOX was a finalist for both the Claymore and the Silver Falchion Awards. COYOTE won a Silver Falchion Award for Best Mystery. WOLF won the Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal for best Thriller/Mystery, was a finalist for the Foreward Magazine award for best mystery, and was voted number one in Women's Mysteries on Goodreads.
Kelly Oliver is the award-winning and Amazon Bestselling author of The Jessica James Mystery Series, including WOLF, COYOTE, FOX, JACKAL and VIPER.
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