Featured Interview With Frankie Bow
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Like my protagonist, Molly Barda, I’m a big city mainland girl who ended up living in rural Hawaii. I never saw myself living in a small town, but I love it here!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I write the kind of book that I want to read. I started writing The Musubi Murder when I was in the middle of reading another cozy, and thought, “I could do better!” (And no, I’m not going to name names!) You could call The Musubi Murder a “cozy mystery” in that it doesn’t have explicit sex or gruesome violence, but it’s definitely on the non-sweet end of the cozy spectrum.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My writing is very American, but many of my favorites are British: P.G. Wodehouse, E.F. Benson, and the criminally under-appreciated Sarah Caudwell. I also love the campus crime novels of KK Reardon and Joanne Dobson, and I read everything by Charlaine Harris and Gail Carriger.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
“Our guest of honor, Jimmy Tanaka, may have been The Most Hated Man in Hawaii, but he was also the biggest donor in the history of the College of Commerce. We were in no position to be picky about the moral character of our benefactors. Not after the latest round of budget cuts.”
Molly Barda just wants to keep her head down and stay out of trouble until she gets tenure, but there’s a problem. A grisly prank at a donor breakfast pulls the introverted Molly into a stew of corruption, revenge, and murder. Along the way, she finds herself drawn to a local fast-food entrepreneur, the too-good-to-be-true Donnie Gonsalves, who seems to like her for all the wrong reasons–and has a few secrets of his own.
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