Ariel Lawhon

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I read two books last week, The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon, four stars, and Sirens at Night, Alexis Parker No. 29 by G.K.

Parks, five stars.

I'm officially 12 books ahead of schedule, and I am 72 of 75 books on the year.

She has written books like The Frozen River, Code Name Helene, and her latest book, The Pirate Queen, is out now.

Ariel Lawhon, thank you so much for joining us on In The Good Books.

Thank you for having me.

This is great fun.

I thought it was really interesting.

Um, and there's actually a more modern book based off of "A Midwife's Tale," as well as Martha Ballard's, uh, diary, called "The Frozen River" by Ariel Lawhon, which is what I read first and how I got into this.

Would recommend if you're into a mystery historical-

Ooh

Actually, I don't rem- know if I've ever said Ariel's name out loud.

Is it Ariel Lawhon?

Lawhon.

Lawhon?

... high up on most of the Goodreads, uh, seasonal previews.

Yeah.

Readers really like Ariel Lawhon, and it seems like she is getting permission from her readers to experiment in a bunch of different-

Yes

I posted, I think I posted a screenshot, like I had...

I love Ariel Lawhon.

She writes historical fiction with great romantic subplots, and her Pirate Queen just came out, which is like mo- one of my most anticipated fall books.

So I got like a skip-the-line loan or something from the LA Public Library, or I got it a lot faster than I thought I was gonna get it, so I posted something about it on Substack.

Okay.

The next one is The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon.

She wrote The Frozen River.

Yes.

Yeah, like the horror of the system marginalizing people and injustice.

You know, when you're like, "What can I do?" 'Cause, like, this would never, ever be classified as horror, but just in the last couple weeks I read The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.

It takes place in 1789 in Maine.

It's interesting 'cause it goes into, like, the justice system of very early era Maine, and there wasn't the system of courts that we have today.

Yes.

Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River.

Yeah.

And this book bends the mystery genre into the strict, unforgiving realm of historical fact.

We analyzed the psychological torture chambers of the isolated environment, contrasting the sunny internal resentments of Alex Michaelides' Greek island with the screaming external aggression of Lucy Foley's Irish coast.

We examined how Christie's tension-building tools can be seamlessly grafted onto brutal, wealth-driven family succession dramas in Tricia Saklecha's work.

Or adapt beautifully to the rigid, unyielding constraints of historical fact with Ariel Lawhon and Ray's own new release, The Undercover Bookshop.

And finally, we witnessed the literal resurrection of the icon herself, Miss Marple, proving that some characters and some insights into human evil are simply too resonant to ever stay retired.