Pioneer Press: Larry Millett's new mystery shifts style
By
Mary Ann Grossmann
Pioneer Press
March 22, 2014
"I've been writing classic mystery novels in which everything gets explained and wrapped up at the end," Larry Millett says. "This book is a bit different, more contemporary in sensibility in how we deal with murder and evil."
Millett is talking about his new novel, "Strongwood: A Crime Dossier," the story of 22-year-old Addie Strongwood, a Minneapolis working-class woman on trial in 1903 for the shooting death of her rich lover, Michael Masterson. Addie, who's beautiful and well-spoken, claims she killed the man in self-defense.