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Margaret Fenton

Publishers Weekly (Monday, April 06, 2009):
Fenton puts her experiences as a social worker to good use in her promising debut. After toddler Michael Hennessy dies of a drug overdose, Claire Conover, of the Birmingham, Ala., Department of Human Services, doesn’t believe the boy’s mother, Ashley, spiked his sippy cup. Ashley, who has a history of hardcore drugs and booze, had been working too hard to get clean in order to regain custody of Michael. Determined to find the real killer, Claire sets out on a course that could cost her career or even her life. Fenton paces her straightforward plot well, but her real strength is in the way she develops her characters relationships. A number of secondary players, an investigative reporter and a guy who knows his way around a computer pave the way for a sequel. With her fine ear for regional speech, Fenton may do for Birmingham what Margaret Maron has done for rural North Carolina. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

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2009 Events

Chris Lilly (Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ)

Jeanie Thompson | Phyllis Hoffman | 54 Writers at the Alabama Book Festival

Wayne Greenhaw | Clark Walker | Foster Dickson | Val Downes | |Jill Conner Browne

2008 Events

Frank Stitt | Governor John Patterson & Warren Trest | Judy Oliver | Bobby Cole | The Church Ladies

Dr.Gaylon McCollough | Rabbi Harold S. Kushner | Tom Chaffin | Trudier Harris | Val McGee | Jan Crawford Greenburg

Mary Anna Evans | Carolyn Jourdan |Bobby Cole | Carolyn Haines | Karren Pell and William Goss

Rick Bragg | Jonathan Harrington | Gin Phillips | Sara Dubose | The Alabama Book Festival

Joe Formichella & Suzanne Hudson | Barbara Wiedemann | Kerry Madden | Mark Childress | Kirk Curnutt

Tim Dorsey | Jill Conner Browne (The Sweet Potato Queen)

2007

Michael Knight | Kathryn Tucker Windham | Mary Ann Neeley & Robert Fouts | Karl Stegall

Donald McCaig | Melinda Rainey Thompson |Wayne Greenhaw

Jennifer Davis | Sonny Brewer | Phyllis Hoffman | Elizabeth Spencer

Louise Shaffer | Justin Allen | Homer Hickam | Jack Deloney | Brad Vice

David Rose | Cassandra King | David Margolick | Doug Marlette

Carl T. Smith | Denise Hamilton | Julia Spencer-Fleming

Mary Anna Evans | Frank Turner Hollon | Mary Palmer Dargan | Jill Conner Browne

2006

Tom Bailey |Robert Inman

John Sledge | Judy Oliver | Melinda Rainey Thompson | Joey Brackner|

Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly | Joshilyn Jackson

Mark Childress | Sonny Brewer | Mills Thornton | Ace Atkins

Ron Rash | Tom Chaffin | Rhys Bowen & Mary Anna Evans | Clea Koff

Robert Barmettler & Jean Shaffer | Carlos Eire | Taylor Branch |

C-SPAN2 Book-TV

2005

Allen Barra | Alabama Chief Justice Drayton Nabers, Jr. | Bruce Feiler

Steve Roberts | Wayne Greenhaw & Donnie Williams

Frank Turner Hollon | Paul Hemphill | Naomi Rosenblatt | Silas House | Bev Marshall |

Mary Anna Evans | Helen Scully | Nan Graham | Louise Shaffer

Bart Barton | Suzanne Hudson & Joe Formichella | Susan Waggoner | Ronda Rich

Don Noble & the Cheaha Writers: Kathleen Thompson, Laura Hunter, Mike Burrell,
Loretta Cobb, Ben Erickson, Bart Barton, Jim Gilbert, Kirk Curnutt,
John Cottle, Suzanne Hudson, Joe Formichella, Janet Nodar and Janet Mauney

Kerry Madden | Sonny Brewer | Joshilyn Jackson| Kathryn Tucker Windham | Monte Burke

Julia Spencer-Fleming | Cassandra King and Pat Conroy | Tim Dorsey | Minnie Lamberth

Con Lehane | Mike Stewart

2004

Fannie Flagg | Wayne Flynt | Kathryn Tucker Windham | Landon Thomas

Frank Stitt | Clint McCown |Warren St. John | Ron Rash | Andrew Exum | Carolyn Haines

Cassandra King | Patricia Sullivan |Tim Dorsey | Ace Atkins | Lawrence Block

Phyllis Alesia Perry | David Warner | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Jim Carrier | Tom Franklin | Dan Carter

2003

Marlin “Bart” Barton | Kirk Curnutt | Alan Grady | Wayne Greenhaw | Valerie Gribben

Jennifer Horne | Suzanne Hudson | Karren Pell | Elizabeth Schafer | Jeanie Thompson & Jay Lamar

Carolyn Haines | Valerie Gribben | Karren Pell | Daphne Simpkins | Steve Oney | Michael Morris |

Homer Hickam | Sena Jeter Naslund | Elizabeth Schafer | Mary Anna Evans | Tom Franklin | Bart Barton

Stephen Marion | Melinda Haynes | Carolyn Haines | Louise Shaffer |

Tim Dorsey | Daniel Wallace | Jack Johnson | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Robert Guillaume

2002

Tom Fitzpatrick | Kathryn Tucker Windham | Ed Givhan | Mary Ann Neely | John Cork | Charlotte Miller Rick Bragg | Paul Hemphill | Fannie Flagg | Robert McCammon | Brad Watson | Tayari Jones

Whitney J. LeBlanc | Norman McMillan | Jim Carrier Nanci Kincaid | Mary Kay Andrews

Carolyn Haines | Helen Norris | Phyllis Perry | William Cobb | Willie G. Moseley and Bill Ingalls,Jr. Bishop John Shelby Spong | Martin Marty | Pearl Cleage | Robert Inman | Mary Ward Brown | Marlin Barton | Jeff Benton | Rick Bragg | Ivan Maisel & Kelly Whiteside | Charlotte Miller

2001

Dot Moore | Wayne Greenhaw | Judy Oliver | Cecil McMillan | George Singleton

Jeanie Thompson | Jeanie Daniel Duck |Tim Dorsey | Ann B. Ross | Scott Bruner | Melinda Haynes | The Sweet Potato Queens | Mike Stewart | Jeanne Braselton | Dr. John Stone

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