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What are you currently working on?
Sandra Neily
“Deadly Turn,” the next "Mystery in Maine” novel, returns Patton, her wayward dog Pock, and Moz, the illusive game warden, Hired to collect dead birds and bats at wind power sites, Patton stumbles over severed pieces of the wind industry’s whistle-blowing economist. Adopted by a teenage trapper who’s illegally raising eagles and fighting his own battles, she's drawn into another outlaw choice between the wild world and the law. Here's Patton starting her next adventure:

Alone on Eagle Ridge, I cried over a dying bat. Against all rabies advice, I pulled off my gloves to find the animal’s heart and my thumb stroked a tiny throb. At the last limp spasm, the bat’s eyes filmed over and I couldn’t stop crying.
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Are you going to write any more books featuring Patton? I loved it.
Sandra Neily HI Norma, sorry for the delay in getting back to you Was so pleased you liked Deadly Trespass and Patton and that you wrote a note. I know what I like about her....what did you like? Yes, she will be back with Pock and of course game warden Moz...and some new folks: Chan, 15 year old home-schooled trapper that moves in.....for one. In truth I was trying to be holded 'up (as they say up here) and work on the next Mystery In Maine, "Deadly Turn." Here's the first few lines... from Patton:

Alone on Eagle Ridge, I cried over a dying bat. Against all rabies advice, I pulled off my gloves to find the animal’s heart and my thumb stroked a tiny throb. At the last limp spasm, the bat’s eyes filmed over and I couldn’t stop crying.

Am hoping to get it out early in 2018!
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I can't wait to read this, Sandra! Thanks for the suggestion. It was wonderful to meet you. What is your favorite Maine camping spot?
Sandra Neily Thanks, Jennie! I just got back from camping at the Penobscot River, Maine (Big Eddy campground). Car camping this time but I love the sites on the far side of the river where I can hear the rapids all night. Fly fished until total dark. Next fall I'm going to return to the upper parts of the West Branch of this same river and canoe and camp all the way down to Chesuncook Lake. September when the great blue herons are migrating and maybe brook trout are feeling more frisky. What about you? Let me know!
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What books are on your summer reading list this year?
Sandra Neily They are stacking up lately but on top are Jennifer Haigh's "Heat and Light," David Brann's "Killers of the Flower Moon," and Elizabeth Strout's "Anything is Possible." And I want to page through all my tracks and scat guide books so I will recognize what I see out there.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Sandra Neily I was out on snowshoes walking next to a river I love, following deer tracks and stumbled into a large cutting operation that was taking down what deer needed to survive. The area was already marked by state biologists as necessary habitat. Got pretty angry. Tried to do something about it. Well...that didn't work. Asked, "why is it such a mystery that no one's taking care of this forest?" So I wrote a mystery...
Check out my post on Maine Crime Writers; http://mainecrimewriters.com/tag/sand...
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