"Home at Night"

Paula Munier is a literary agent and the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. The sequel Blind Search, inspired by the real-life rescue of a little boy with autism who got lost in the woods, was followed by The Hiding Place in 2021 and The Wedding Plot in 2022.

Munier applied the Page 69 Test to her new Mercy Carr mystery, Home at Night, and reported the following:

Turn to page 69 of Home at Night, and you’ll find revelations about Euphemia Whitney-Jones, the celebrated poet who even in death casts a long shadow over Grackle Tree Farm. My heroine Mercy Carr has her heart set on calling the place home—even when Elvis aka the world’s smartest dog finds a dead body in the library. She’s determined to make the old Victorian pile on thirty acres of Vermont woods her own, even if it is cursed by an unhappy history.

On page 69, you learn that Euphemia grew up in the 19th century limestone mansion, before moving to the south of France and establishing a famous—or should I say infamous—literary salon. Mercy's Uncle Hugo knew Euphemia and visited her in Provence during the Cold War. The colonel describes their brief encounter, her legendary salon and the luminaries who flocked to it. As it turns out, Grackle Tree Farm is full of secrets that Euphemia has taken with her to the grave—and it's up to Mercy to dig them up.

Visit Paula Munier's website.

Coffee with a Canine: Paula Munier & Bear.

My Book, The Movie: A Borrowing of Bones.

The Page 69 Test: A Borrowing of Bones.

My Book, The Movie: Blind Search.

The Page 69 Test: Blind Search.

My Book, The Movie: The Hiding Place.

The Page 69 Test: The Hiding Place.

Q&A with Paula Munier.

My Book, The Movie: The Wedding Plot.

The Page 69 Test: The Wedding Plot.

Writers Read: Paula Munier.

My Book, The Movie: Home at Night.

--Marshal Zeringue