Barbara Fister

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Barbara Fister


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Madison, Wisconsin, The United States
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I'm an avid reader, an academic librarian, and a writer of various things including crime fiction. My first mystery (or thriller if you like to categorize), On Edge, was published in 2002. In the Wind, introducing a new series set in Chicago, was published by St. Martin's in 2008. Reviewing it in the Chicago Tribune, Paul Goat Allen called it "an understated crime fiction gem." The second in the series, Through the Cracks, was published in May 2010. Library Journal said the story "packs a real punch. It will appeal to Sara Paretsky fans and mystery readers who long for tough and savvy female investigators." ...more

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I moved!

For a long time I’ve meant to migrate my website to a platform that would be easier to update (not requiring html coding skills that I don’t have) and I finally did, choosing Reclaim Hosting and setting up a WordPress.org site there. Since that has blogging built in, I’m moving these shenanigans over there. The good news – no more cheesy ads! The bad news . . . I can’t think of any.


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Published on December 07, 2016 15:33
Average rating: 3.74 · 238 ratings · 52 reviews · 181 distinct works
In the Wind

3.69 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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On Edge

3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Through the Cracks

3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Runtime

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Pyhimysmurha : Anni Koskine...

2.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010
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In the Dark

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Quick Reference: Working wi...

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If Then Else

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Fit in Deutsch! 5/6. Lese- ...

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“If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have neither access nor preservation.”
Barbara Fister

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the unexpected, the irrelevant, the odd and the unexplainable.”
Barbara Fister



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