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Liza Tully

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Born

Los Angeles, The United States

Website

https://www.lizatully.com

Genre

Mystery, Humor and Comedy, Fiction

Member Since

July 2025

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Liza Tully lives in Boston, MA with her husband and their dog, Fred. She is a firm believer in reading escapist fiction that makes you laugh as well as think. She also writes suspense as Elisabeth Elo and literary fiction as Elisabeth Panttaja Brink. Her novels have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus; have been featured on NPR and People Magazine; and have been honored as an Indie Next Pick and a Book of the Month Club selection. She likes to hike to coffee shops and do many other things, but mostly she likes books. She has been reading and writing all her life and still feels like she has just begun.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 3,875 ratings · 638 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 3,868 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forty-Year Grudge (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries #2) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Series by Liza Tully

Merritt & Blunt Mysteries (2 books)
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3.58 avg rating — 3,875 ratings

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Liza Tully is now friends with J.R. Sawyer
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Liza Tully liked Heather Laskos's review of The Forty-Year Grudge (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries #2): "This book was an intriguing mystery! When renowned detective Aubrey Merritt is invited to a reunion with her college sorority sisters, she almost doesn't go, until one of them receives a threat. Once Merritt and her assistant Oliva Blunt arrive at th" Read more of this review »
Mar 25, 2026 09:20AM · see review
Liza Tully rated a book it was amazing The Forty-Year Grudge (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries #2) by Liza Tully (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I had a lot of fun writing this book. Loved the characters and especially the relationship between Aubrey and Olivia where Olivia starts to come into her own as a detective. The mystery they have to solve isn't easy. There are actually three crimes t ...more
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Liza Tully and 2 other people liked Jill's review of The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1): "Olivia Blunt is a big fan of fictional detective stories and one real-life detective. As a fact checker for an online news bureau, she checked on story about Aubrey Merritt, and she became fascinated by the woman. She used logic and psychology to sol" Read more of this review »
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Liza Tully and 4 other people liked Robin's review of The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1): "This was a complete delight. Fashioned on the Holmes-Watson model, the “Greatest Detective,” Aubrey Merritt, is a 60 something lady with a pristine reputation for cracking difficult cases. As the book opens, she hires the somewhat hapless, aka Watson" Read more of this review »
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“Now I was quiet. “It’s because police departments have constraints,” she continued. “Constraints of time, money, manpower, politics, and public pressure. Even their vaunted forensic labs aren’t the magical places we think they are;”
― Liza Tully, The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

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