Authors Interviewing Characters: Harper Kincaid
About the book:
A Midsummer Night’s Scheme
All the world’s a stage, but it may be curtains for bookbinder Quinn Caine’s brother if she can’t bring the lights down on an actor’s killer, in this mystery perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle.
Just when everything is returning to the calm that Quinn Caine and her sidekicks, Ruff Barker Ginsburg and Sister Daria, are used to in their beloved town of Vienna, a Broadway star crash-lands into their peace and quiet. Former ‘player’, Chad Frivole, is Vienna’s prodigal son—the once notorious lothario has returned a Broadway star, ready to make a different kind of mark on his hometown.
Not everyone is celebrating the Tony-award-winner’s return. Chad’s a triple threat—with a cast of characters lining up to seek their revenge on him. So, when he turns up dead in his car, trapped with a sack full of snakes, Quinn can’t say she’s surprised—but promises handsome detective Aiden Harrington that she’s staying out of this local mystery.
That is, until someone starts threatening her brother’s life. It’s true, Sebastian ‘Bash’ Caine used to be a womanizer, just like Chad. And the killer doesn’t seem to care that he’s not that man anymore. Bash Caine is in the killer’s sights, and unless Quinn and her crew can find the killer in time, whoever it is will drag her brother into his final act on this mortal coil.
HK: Thanks for taking time to sit down with me.
SD: Any excuse to sit these days works for me. Between taking care of seven new German Shepherd pups and eight rescues…PLUS our emotional support animal program has doubled in size. Sitting is my new idea of heaven.
HK: That’s cute. So, I’m not going to ask a lot of fluff.
SD: By all means, be direct.
HK: If Vienna, Virginia is such an idyllic place to live, why do people keep dying?
SD: That’s a fair point. No murders in over thirty years and now three in one year. I don’t have a definitive answer. I’m in the redemption business. That said, I think everything is cyclical. Good and evil always get their turn.
HK: An eloquent point. Okay, here’s another direct question you can answer.
SD: Fire away. Impress me with your acumen.
HK: Isn’t that a line from Silence of the Lambs?
SD: It is. Freaks people out even more when I say this while wearing the penguin outfit.
HK: I forgot how twisted you can be. Okay, so tell me, do you think your background as a social worker, and now a nun in training, helps you in some way solve crimes?
SD: I think it means I’m open to people and experiences outside the expected. The way my brain works, I notice patterns, I like coming at problems from different angles. If I’m going to be truthful, I think my cousin Quinn is more of a natural detective.
HK: You’ve lived in Vienna your whole life. What makes you stay?
SD: It’s ironic. Everyone thinks of Quinn as the good girl who does what’s expected of her and me as some rebel. But she’s the one who took off for Cambodia, Vietnam, then Guatemala, teaching English, for three years. She slept on dirt floors. She taught her lessons under mosquito nets. I get cranky if there’s a room without air-conditioning. I haven’t been anywhere. Yet.
I love it here because I love the people. I have my family here. Plus, I can’t live without my coffee from Caffe Amour.
HK: There’s certainly been some interesting stories coming out of Vienna these days.
SD: Facts.
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Born in California and raised in South Florida, Harper Kincaid has moved around like a nomad with a bounty on her head ever since. Kincaid has her master’s degree in Gender History and another in Clinical/Macro Social Work and works as a psychotherapist.
A Midsummer Night’s Scheme is the second book in Harper Kincaid’s Book Binder’s Mystery series and is out now. To keep track of Harper’s upcoming adventures-real and in fiction-sign up for her newsletter at https://www.HarperKincaid.com.
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