Author Amie Schaumberg sits down with Soundside host Libby Denkmann to talk about her debut novel - "Murder by the Book."

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I first encountered the old axiom of write what you know as a child while watching a movie adaptation of Alcott’s Little Women, when noted rebel Jo March turns her back on the sensationalist “trash…

I first encountered the old axiom of write what you know as a child while watching a movie adaptation of Alcott’s Little Women, when noted rebel Jo March turns her back on the sensationalist “trash…

I first encountered the old axiom of write what you know as a child while watching a movie adaptation of Alcott’s Little Women, when noted rebel Jo March turns her back on the sensationalist “trash…

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Find two successful queries for Amie Schaumberg's debut novel "Muder By the Book," one to her agent and the other to her editor.

MURDER BY THE BOOK Amie Schaumberg Summary Near a small college campus, a student is found strangled in an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. She's been posed to look like a painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the scene taunting the police with messages that they don't understand. Detective Ian Carter is known as a straitlaced cop, but seeing the girl's body leaves him shaken and uncertain of where to turn—until a chance meeting with a charmingly awkward literature professor ends with her accidentally seeing, and solving, a clue left by the killer.

Here is a list of over 85 new titles representing major genres such as cozy mysteries, traditional mysteries, historical mysteries, and others releasing this month, with 12 debut series. As always,…