Jane Tesh @janetesh
I had the great good fortune to be born in
the American South into a wonderful family whose idea of a good time was to
gather on the front porch and tell jokes and stories. Also, it’s so stupidly hot in the South that
people often go nuts and decide to murder each other. A winning combination of influences for a
mystery writer.
I
grew up in the large city of Greensboro but moved to the much smaller town of
Mt. Airy to take a job as an elementary school librarian. Mt. Airy is Andy
Griffith’s hometown. I live in
Mayberry! I don’t think you can get much
more Southern than that.
So of course, my two-mystery series are
set in the south. In the Madeline Maclin
Mysteries, my PI is an ex-beauty queen, struggling to overcome a childhood
filled with dreadful Little Miss pageants.
She’s also trying to keep her agency going while attempting to reform
her con man boyfriend, Jerry Fairweather, whose shady associates always show up
to complicate Madeline’s cases.
