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I Don't Like Kind of the Difference in the Reception of Defending Jacob
Sally Kohn: You've had this string of fantastic novels as your fourth novel. Mission Flats was an award winner and won a Best First Crime Novel Award from the Dagger Awards. And then Strangler, of course, named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by the LA Times and more. Talk a little bit about kind of, did you feel a difference in kind of the reception that one as opposed to the first two? She says it's just chancey and strange how some books will find traction and others won't.Kohn: I remember hearing an interview with Paul McCartney and somebody asked him once if when he was composing songs with Lenin, whether he could tell which
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