Interview with Gini Anding, Author of Witness by the Church

"Witness by the Church" is Gini Anding's latest book starring food critic Amy Page and French investigator Jean-Michel Jolivet, passionate lovers living together in Paris. In each "Witness" novel, Amy is the key-yet unwitting-witness to a crime. Unlike most mystery novels starring a female lead, Amy isn't an amateur sleuth and never sets out to help the police. In "Witness by the Church," Amy doesn't realize she holds the key clue to a major crime, until she becomes the target of several botched assassination attempts. While Amy is the primary witness to the mystery at hand in each novel, she also serves as the reader's witness to certain cultural, historical, geographic and culinary particulars and events," Anding says. "Everything in my novels is meticulously researched and documented. A good read should be entertaining without sacrificing the facts."

GM to close four plants, may unload Hummer

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