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Lea Wait


Born
in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
May 26, 1946

Died
August 09, 2019

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Maine author Lea Wait writes the NYT-praised 8-book Shadows Antique Print Mystery series, the latest of which is SHADWS ON A MORNING IN MAINE, and the USA Today best-selling Mainely Needlepoint series which debuted with TWISTED THREADS in January, 2015, and was followed by THREADS OF EVIDENCE in August, 2015, THREAD AND GONE, in January, 2016, DANGLING BY A THREAD in late October, 2016, and TIGHTENING THE THREADS in March, 2017. Wait also writes acclaimed historical novels for ages 8 and up set in 19th century Maine, the latest of which, UNCERTAIN GLORY, takes place in a small northern town during the first two weeks of the Civil War. Lea's LIVING AND WRITING ON THE COAST OF MAINE, about being an author and living year 'round in Maine with ...more

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Fiction is fiction…but it’s all relative

When I’m writing a mystery novel, which seems like all the time now, things that I read about or see on TV often spark ideas. Sometimes I feel compelled to add whatever it is to the book I’m writing. I don’t question this, I go with it. I always figure it’s my writer brain working in the background (like one of those apps on your phone compiling data even when you’re not using the phone). The inte

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Twisted Threads (Mainely Ne...

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Threads of Evidence (Mainel...

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Thread and Gone (Mainely Ne...

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Dangling by a Thread (Maine...

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Tightening the Threads (Mai...

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Thread the Halls (Mainely N...

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Thread Herrings (Mainely Ne...

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Thread on Arrival (Mainely ...

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Twisted Threads Threads of Evidence Thread and Gone Dangling by a Thread Tightening the Threads Thread the Halls Thread Herrings
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Quotes by Lea Wait  (?)
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“as they are never more at home with their own hearts while so occupied.   —Nathaniel”
Lea Wait, Twisted Threads

“August 1793 was during the Reign of Terror—when so many aristocrats and wealthy people were seized and guillotined without trials. Marie Antoinette was in the Bastille then. She was executed”
Lea Wait, Thread and Gone

“his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We”
Lea Wait, Dangling by a Thread

Polls

What is your favorite cozy mystery series?

 
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Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness)
 
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Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey)
 
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Ngaio Marsh, A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn)
 
  4 votes, 4.3%

Carolyn Hart, Death On Demand (Death on Demand)
 
  4 votes, 4.3%

Earlene Fowler, Fool's Puzzle (Bennie Harper)
 
  2 votes, 2.2%

Lea Wait, Twisted Threads (Mainely Needlepoint)
 
  2 votes, 2.2%

Spencer Quinn, Dog on It (Chet and Bernie)
 
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Barbara Ross, Clammed Up (Maine Clambake)
 
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