Published in February 2022, my debut novel The Girl in Duluth is a literary mystery in the vein of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train. Publishers Weekly has called it an “affecting debut …. Brown easily creates engagement with [her main character] June, and poetic prose is a plus …. Fans of thoughtful crime fiction will hope for more from Brown.” Says Erin Britton at Portland Book Review: “With an atmospheric setting in a remote and densely forested patch of Minnesota adjacent to the Canadian border, The Girl in Duluth tells the evocative and often troubling tale of a rural community populated by families with rumbling resentments and several secrets to hide.” According to redheadedbooklover.com's 5-star review, "Brown is a writer who knows how to capture her reader’s attention with her fast-paced approach and dramatic but heartfelt story ... The Girl in Duluth is a moving, captivating, and memorable novel from start to finish that will take its readers on an intense but brilliant journey." You can read more about me and The Girl in Duluth, as well as see a book-club discussion guide for the novel, on my website (link above). Watch a video of me reading from The Girl in Duluth at Eat My Words Bookstore in northeast Minneapolis at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmTIG.... I'm a reader with eclectic tastes. I've read nearly every book Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon ever wrote, but on any given day I am equally likely to have my nose buried in the literary fiction of writers like Lesley Nneka Arimah, James Welch, Ron A. Austin, and Victor LaValle. From Edgar Allan Poe to Alison Bechdel to Laura Ingalls Wilder, what I care about most in books are careful observations of human nature that are both frank and compassionate. And I admire any writer who can—for any number of reasons—pull me irresistibly from one page to the next.