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New queer cozy mystery novel takes place in a fictionalized Metro Detroit » WDET 101.9 FM
Frank Anthony Polito is an award-winning writer and playwright from Metro Detroit. His novels embody “Remembering Christmas” and “The Spirit of Detroit,” amongst many others, and his new murder-mystery novel, “Renovated to Dying,” is out now.
The premise of the ebook is loosely based mostly on Polito’s life together with his accomplice, Craig Bentley.
“Proper earlier than the pandemic, my editor at Kensington Books referred to as me up and mentioned he had this new concept for a comfy thriller collection a couple of homosexual couple and thought mine and my accomplice Craig’s story can be good inspiration and an excellent jumping-off level,” Polito says.
For the primary time in his writing profession, Polito determined to set the novel in a fictionalized city with inspiration from his real-life dwelling in Nice Ridge.
“So it’s Nice Woods, located between Royal Heights and Fernridge. Preserving in with the comfortable thriller, it makes it extra enjoyable,” he says.
Polito describes the style as “household pleasant for essentially the most half:” no blood, guts, gore, intercourse or violence. Whereas there’s a dying, it doesn’t happen inside the narration of the ebook.
“What I actually got down to do was – I didn’t a lot wish to make a formulaic cozy thriller novel, I wished to jot down a Frank Anthony Polito novel the way in which that I all the time write them. Identical humor, identical neurotic narrator, witty banter, intelligent dialogue and characters, and it simply so occurs the plot revolves round any individual [who] dies and so they must determine it out.”
In preparation for the ebook, he watched plenty of “Homicide, She Wrote.”
“I’m technically Angela Lansbury,” he jokes, “however I’m the 35-year-old homosexual, queer, male, home accomplice model of Angela Lansbury.”
Polito can have a ebook signing from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday at Pages Bookshop.
Pay attention: Metro Detroit writer Frank Anthony Polito shares the inspiration for his new novel, “Renovated to Dying.”
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