Laura McHugh, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/mchughlauras/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:51:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing Crime Close to Home https://booksbywomen.org/writing-crime-close-to-home/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-crime-close-to-home/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:58:50 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21403 A disturbing true crime inspired pieces of my first novel, The Weight of Blood: in the small town where I attended high school, a teenage girl was held captive by a man and his wife for six years—a victim of human trafficking—and none of the handful of people who knew about it did anything to […]

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