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Episode 84: A Birder’s Guide to Murder, with JR Ripley

Author JR Ripley chats with Bill about his recent birder-murder mystery novel, A Birder's Guide to Murder, set at the American Birding Expo. The book is part of the Bird Lover's Mystery series published by Kensington, in which the heroine, Amy, solves murders, while simultaneously running her specialty retail birding store. JR, whose real name is Glenn Eric Meganck, also writes novels in other genres under other pen names, is a professional musician, and is kinda into zombies, too. Posted Wed, 12 Sep 2018.
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