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About Death of a Proper Bostonian
Death of a Proper Bostonian (Old Los Angeles)
Historical Mystery
6th in Series
Setting – Boston, 1873
Publisher : Healcroft House, Publishers
Publication date : June 12, 2026
Digital
ISBN-13 : 978-1948616539
ASIN : B0GMLGMMGM
A deadly homecoming
It’s August 1873, and at long last, physician and winemaker Maddie Franklin Wilcox makes the journey home to her beloved native Boston. Her business is to deliver her ward and apprentice, Elena Ortiz, to the local women’s medical school, and that also includes visiting her father, her sister and her family.
But at a dinner with the family of Maddie’s late and very much unlamented (at least, on her part) husband, young John Wilcox, a cousin there to entertain the guests with his nature talk, is shot.
Then the next morning, the eldest of the Wilcox brothers is found shot in his bed. Maddie quickly concludes that the shooting of the oh, so charming naturalist was but a distraction for the shooting of her former brother-in-law.
Chased by a corrupt Boston police officer, confronted again and again by the relentless prejudice of the city’s medical practitioners, and in danger of losing her heart to young John Wilcox (who had plenty of reasons to want his cousin dead), Maddie’s happy homecoming becomes a morass of suspicion with someone willing to kill her and the people she loves.
About Anne Louise Bannon
Author Anne Louise Bannon’s husband says that his wife kills people for a living. Bannon does mostly write mysteries, including the Old Los Angeles Series, the Freddie and Kathy series, and the Operation Quickline series. She has worked as a freelance journalist for magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. She and her husband, Michael Holland, created a
wine education blog, and she co-wrote a book on poisons. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Visit her website at AnneLouiseBannon.com.
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Author Interview
What is your favorite part of this book and why?
Oh, phooey! It’s the very last scene in the book and involves a very minor spoiler, but a spoiler nonetheless. But I planned it long, long before I wrote the story, and it really plays into Maddie’s commitment to where she is going to live for the rest of her life and her development as a character.
If you could spend time with a character from your book whom would it be? And what would you do during that day?
It would probably be Maddie Wilcox. I’ve had so much fun with all of the characters in this series, but Maddie always surprises me. We’d have tea and biscuits, possibly dinner on her rancho, then go to see a lecture, or if there was anybody special in the pueblo, hear a concert.
What books/authors have most inspired you?
Let’s just say that Dorothy L. Sayers has a lot to answer for across the board. Specifically in terms of the Old Los Angeles series, Louisa May Alcott and Little Women. I used Alcott’s voice for Maddie’s. I wanted a narration that would sound like someone from the 19 th Century. While I’d grown up reading Little Women, I read it again, and a couple other of Alcott’s novels. That narrative style and the way the characters speak really gave me that sense of not being in the 21 st Century.
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
Generally, my characters come from my imagination. I’ve tried using real people a couple of times (which usually involved some petty revenge). I probably will again. But darn them, every time I have, the character had other ideas. Characters can be such pains that way.
Since I write historical mysteries, and especially since it’s hard to avoid the real people in a place as small as Los Angeles was at the time I’m writing about it, occasionally, a real person will pop up in the storytelling. I try to avoid it, though. It’s one of those things that, when I’m reading, it can throw off the whole sense of reading a story for me.
What made you want to become a writer?
Want to be a writer? That’s a little hard for me to answer because it’s so much of who I am as a person. Oh, yeah, I toyed with the idea of becoming a freelance writer while in high school, and later, did that for a number of years.
But there is a part of me that has been a fiction writer since I was a kid. I wrote my first novel when I was fifteen, and did that mostly so that I could justify hanging around in my room daydreaming all day. What can I say? Characters start talking to me in my head, and it’s really hard to ignore them.
So did I dream of becoming wildly famous and rich from my stories?
Yeah. But the writing part of it was always there, and I didn’t set out to become a writer. I’ve always been one.
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TOUR PARTICIPANTS
June 9 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
June 9 – Cozy Up With Kathy – CHARACTER GUEST POST
June 10 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 10 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
June 11 – Salty Inspirations – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 11 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT
June 12 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
June 12 – Sarandipity’s – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
June 13 – StoreyBook Reviews – AUTHOR GUEST POST
June 13 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – SPOTLIGHT
June 14 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
June 15 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
June 16 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER INTERVIEW
June 16 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
June 17 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
June 18 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
Giveaway
Prize – The Grand Prize Winner Receives a of Signed Print Copies of the whole An Old Los Angeles Series by Anne Louise Bannon. The next 4 Receive a signed print version of the featured book, Death of a Proper Bostonian (Old Los Angeles) by Anne Louise Bannon
