Larissa considers herself lucky to have taught English in Japan, escaped a ferocious monkey in Thailand, studied archaeology in Egypt, and survived teaching high school history in the US. After moving around the midwest, the south and Japan, she now lives in Georgia with her husband, daughters, and Biscuit, a Cairn Terrier.
She loves small town characters with big attitudes, particularly sassy women with a penchant for trouble. PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY (Henery Press, August 28, 2012) is a 2012 Daphne du Maurier finalist, a 2012 The Emily finalist, and a 2011 Dixie Kane Memorial winner. Cherry Tucker’s second mystery, STILL LIFE N BRUNSWICK STEW, will release in May 2013. When she’s not writing about southern fried chicken, she writes about Asian fried chicken at her blog about life as an ex-expat at theexpatreturneth.blogspot.com. You can find Larissa chatting on Facebook; Twitter; and Goodreads. You can also find more information on her website at larissareinhart.com.
Where are you from?
First, thanks so
much for having me on your blog!
I’m from a farming
village, population 600, called Andover. My roots are small town and slightly
redneck, although my mother would argue that fact because she was raised in a
town with sidewalks and went to college. I also went to college and like to
live in cities, but can’t seem to shake the redneck factor. It comes across
more strongly with beer.
Tell us your latest
news?
My first novel in the
Cherry Tucker Mystery series, PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY, launched in August and
it’s been a whirlwind publication that began last March. My second in the
series, STILL LIFE IN BRUNSWICK STEW, will release next May. I’m working on a
Christmas novella anthology with two other Henery Press authors for 2013.
Beyond that, I’ve got several projects started and hoping someone will invent a
time machine or cloning to help me get them done.
Is there a message
in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
Don’t mess with an
artist and her shotgun when she’s on a deadline? Just kidding. Hopefully, my
love of small towns and small town characters shines through. And that small
town people lead richer, more diverse lives than you’d suspect.
If someone wrote a book about your
life, what would they title it?
NOTHING’S EVER SIMPLE
What is the ultimate dream
vacation?
Anywhere foreign, but where I
don’t fear for safety.
What person in history would you
most like to meet?
The easy answer is Jesus Christ.
Agatha Christie would be pretty cool, too.
If you could design a refrigerator
magnet, what would it say?
I like that quote by Benjamin
Franklin: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Actually, that’s probably
dangerous for a refrigerator magnet.
I’d like to encourage
readers to enter my giveaway contest. Up for grabs is an e-copy of
PORTRAIT OF A DEAD GUY, book one of the Cherry Tucker Mystery
Series. Leave a comment and you're automatically entered. Include your
email addy so I can get in touch with you should your name be selected at
random. The winner will be announced on my blog (http://theexpatreturneth.blogspot.com/)
on December 12, 2012. Good luck!
In Halo, Georgia, folks know Cherry Tucker as big in mouth, small
in stature, and able to sketch a portrait faster than buckshot rips from a ten
gauge -- but commissions are scarce. So when the well-heeled Branson family
wants to memorialize their murdered son in a coffin portrait, Cherry scrambles
to win their patronage from her small town rival.
As the clock ticks toward the deadline, Cherry faces more trouble
than just a controversial subject. Her rival wants to ruin her reputation, her
ex-flame wants to rekindle the fire, and someone’s setting her up to take the
fall. Mix in her flaky family, an illegal gambling ring, and outwitting a
killer on a spree, Cherry finds herself painted into a corner she’ll be lucky
to survive.
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