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There are three places you can find Erica when she’s not writing: on a hiking trail, in her garden, or at the back of the pack in her local road race. Her favorite kind of vacation is backpacking across Dartmoor or among the hills of Wales in order to find new and exciting legends about Druids, fairy folk and unsolved mysteries to inspire her own writing. After she graduated from Yale University, this interest in folkore and legend led her to an M.A. in Creative Writing from City College of New York and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York, where she published articles and a book about female folklorists of the nineteenth century before she decided she’d rather be writing the stories herself.

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	Back to the Garden 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013	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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	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February 2024 by Janet Hutchings (Editor), C.H. Hung (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Charley Marsh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings	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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Erica Obey said: " Ambitious and compelling. This book is beautifully written, and the author handles its complex subject matter deftly and with sensitivity. However, a mystery reader is likely to find themselves blindsided when they discover this book is about the med ...more "

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