Her two gangster novels earned her Top Notable Indie Book awards. Author Betty Passick shared her passion for writing historical fiction in a very candid down-to-earth interview. Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of The Black Bag of Dr. Wiltse, Murder on the Prairie.
"Research comes first," she said. "If you don't like doing research, historical fiction is not for you."
Unlike most authors of historical fiction, Passick does not change the names of people or places in her historical crime novels. She has always been fascinated by the story of the Italian American "mystery man" who first came to her Iowa hometown in the early 1920s, and the rest is history. No pun intended.
Now, it's up to us to find out what was in The Black Bag of Dr. Wiltse, Murder on the Prairie her second historical crime novel that earned her the second Top Notable Indie Book Award in 2021 after Gangster in our Midst in 2019.
"This crime mystery novel captures its audience’s attention with the delicious historical detail from this time period in early America’s burgeoning settlements... Who knew there was such a criminal element lurking on our prairies?"
Sponsored by Doc Chavent and The Lowell Ledger
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