In a brand new homicide thriller, a younger lady, Olivia Blunt, is keen to impress her new boss, a no-nonsense detective named Aubrey Merritt. This intergenerational pairing is on the middle of The World’s Best Detective and Her Simply Okay Assistant, the newest novel from Liza Tully, which is the pen title of writer Elisabeth Brink. In at present’s episode, Tully joins NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe for a dialog that touches on why the writer selected to write down this duo, how she lays out her clues, and what attracts readers to homicide mysteries.
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