Bookshop Interview with Author Jolie Tunnell (Episode #148)

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Jolie Tunnell discusses her series, The Idyllwild Mysteries. This historical cozy mystery series is set in 1912 in the real-life, small mountain community of Idyllwild, California. Jolie’s main character, Loveda Brown, is a young woman who reluctantly finds herself in Idyllwild but grows to love the town and begins to thrive there. 1912 is a year of great change for Idyllwild. It is a year that finds the small, isolated community being dragged into the modern age by progressive ideas brought in by visitors and technological advances, such as the automobile. All this upheaval, plus Loveda Brown’s arrival, serves as the backdrop for that key component of all cozy mysteries…murder. In this episode, I’ll chat with Jolie about her writing journey, how she has learned to trust her characters when it comes to twists and turns in the plot, and why she hopes readers will fall in love with Idyllwild, just as she has.

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