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Before turning to writing full-time in 2008, M. F. (Mimi) Jones worked in publishing. She got her start at Viking Press where, as an editorial assistant, she discovered the bestseller Ordinary People by Judith Guest in the slush pile, and became its editor.

She then moved to magazines and was a fiction editor at Redbook and a senior editor at Family Circle and Reader’s Digest. Her feature articles and columns have been published in those and other magazines.

When not writing, she can be found reading, knitting (while listening to audiobooks), singing in a choir, or hiking in the Tennessee woods near the home she shares with her husband, composer Douglas Hedwig. Stones River, which won a Silver Medal in the 2026 IBPA Book Awards, is her firs
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I am new to the Mac Faraday series, and will enjoy catching up on earlier installments. Best in Murder is a rollicking, twisty, you might say “gnarly” mystery! It is also rich in characters, human and canine, and heartwarming. This dog lover ate it u ...more
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I enjoyed the historical detail about early 20th century New York City in Firebrands, and liked Helena, the heroine -- a woman with a passion for labor reform and women's rights, and a determination to save her beloved sister, Summer, from marrying a ...more
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"Some ghosts don't need to haunt you. You carry them with you.

At first, Soldier’s Joy by M. F. Jones (Book II of The Sentinel Heart Trilogy) looks like a supernatural story. Avery Gowan has just returned from Iraq when a ghost who looks disturbingly l" Read more of this review »
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I read the first book, Stones River, and enjoyed it. But this one is far better in my opinion. The weaving of the characters from the first book into this story was just perfect. Knowing that in the early 2000s M.F. J" Read more of this review »
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