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Best Book Ever


Oct 31, 2022

Michelle Cox is the author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, a mystery/romance saga set in the 1930s Chicago often described as “Downton Abbey Meets Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.” To date, the series has won over sixty international awards and has received positive reviews from Library Journal (starred), Booklist (starred), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and various media outlets, such as Popsugar, Buzzfeed, Redbook, Elle, Brit&Co., Bustle, Culturalist, Working Mother, and many others. Cox also pens the wildly popular, “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog chronically the lives of Chicago’s forgotten residents. She lives in the northern suburbs of Chicago with her husband and three children and is hard at work on her next novel. 

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Guest: Michelle Cox

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We are hard at work on our annual Kids/YA Gift Giving Guide. Do you know a young person who’d like to talk to me about their favorite book? For more information, GO HERE!

 

Previous Kids/YA Episodes:

 

2021

2020

 

And, just for fun, here’s an episode of outtakes from my chats with kids.

 

Discussed in this episode:

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier

Henrietta and Inspector Howard Series by Michelle Cox:

A Girl Like You

A Ring of Truth

A Promise Given

A Veil Removed

A Child Lost

A Spying Eye

The Interview Show on PBS (filmed at The Hideout Bar Chicago)

My Cousin Rachel film adaptation

Get Out tea scene

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

 

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