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After a career of college teaching, Barry Knister returned to writing. His first novel, a gritty thriller about Vietnam Vets titled THE DATING SERVICE was published by Berkley. Since then, he has published JUST BILL, a gentle novel of magical realism about dogs and owners living on a Florida golf course.
Knister has also published three suspense novels featuring journalist Brenda Contay. Each book is set in a place Knister knows well. The first in the series, THE ANYTHING GOES GIRL takes place in Micronesia, where Knister served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. In this story, Brenda investigates an elaborate scheme to use unsuspecting islanders in drug experiments.
The second book, DEEP NORTH is a noir suspense story. Brenda and three other women take a fishing trip, only to find themselves mired in a grim pattern of murders. Most of the story takes place in the beautiful Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota. Knister has often fished these waters.
In 2018, he published GODSEND, the third novel in the series. The story is set in Florida's upscale Naples, where the author spent winter months for seven years. The action weaves a character-driven story of Brenda doing her best to escape romantic guilt, with that of a likable and ambitious illegal alien. James Rivera helps people who want to die, even when they change their minds.
The fourth book is COLDER, WITH SNOW, published in 2022. Again, the novel's principal setting is one Barry Knister knows well: a snowbound college campus during the Christmas break. Happy at last, Brenda Contay is delighted to be teaching journalism at her alma mater. That is, until her students start being murdered.
Knister is a past secretary of Detroit Working Writers, and the former director of the Cranbrook Writers Conference. He has published travel and humor in local markets, and wrote "Let me get this straight," a blog/column for the Naples (Florida) Daily News. Find out more at https://barryknister.com.
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