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Lisa Shanahan

Author of Murder by the Book

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  • Street-smart publisher Frances Paige is on the hunt in Boston for the killer of two authors in this gripping noir mystery.
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  • Street-smart publisher Frances Paige is on the hunt in Boston for the killer of two authors in this gripping noir mystery.
    LEARN MORE | BUY THE BOOK
    A deadly art heist ripped from the pages of their new blockbuster lands Harpoon Books back in the news. But is it a publicity stunt?
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  • Street-smart publisher Frances Paige is on the hunt in Boston for the killer of two authors in this gripping noir mystery.
    LEARN MORE | BUY THE BOOK
    A deadly art heist ripped from the pages of their new blockbuster lands Harpoon Books back in the news. But is it a publicity stunt?
    LEARN MORE | BUY THE BOOK

About the Author

Lisa Shanahan lives in the past in Ithaca, New York, and Cambridge, Mass., and in the present in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband, Jim. While on a pilgrimage over the years, she passed mile markers at an all-girls prep school in Chattanooga, at Vanderbilt University, in publishing jobs in Boston and New York (tangentially), in a maternity ward, and in sundry picturesque towns in New England.

She writes for a life. READ FULL BIO

Latest Blog Post…

Reader, Should You Get an MFA in Creative Writing?

  In Jane Eyre, one of my favorite novels, Jane gives us the lowdown on Mr. Rochester quite simply: “Reader, I married him.” Her momentous life decision didn’t take many words to describe once she’d made up her mind. This year I had a big life decision to make and felt how fitting to pay homage to Jane’s decisiveness: Reader, I’m Getting an MFA. Should You? Get an MFA has been a steady drumbeat in the back of my mind, almost like a genetic … READ FULL ENTRY

News Flash!

New! Murder Masterpiece has been published in my Boston Publishing House Mystery Series by Christopher Matthews Publishing in Boston.

Check out “Writing on the Edge,” an article about what my pursuits of figure skating and writing have in common.

I began the Sewanee School of Letters’ four-year, summers-only MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of the South in the summer of 2017.

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