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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 53 MIN

Deborah Kalb — Everything She Most Admired: A Mystery Novel - with Susan Coll

from Politics and Prose Presents · host Politics and Prose

Lauren Green never expected to be a suspect in a murder investigation on her first day at D.C.-based Lens magazine. But then again, nothing had been going well lately.Dumped by her fiance, her academic career floundering, and her living situation up in the air, she's barely holding things together. She knows she didn't kill reporter Tony Mandel. But who did? Surrounded by murder suspects-including one whom she finds surprisingly intriguing-Lauren tries to piece the clues together, not only about Tony Mandel's death but also about her own life.Deborah Kalb is a freelance writer and editor. She spent about two decades working as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for news organizations including Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly, U.S. News & World Report, and The Hill, mostly covering Congress and politics. Her book blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, which she started in 2012, features hundreds of interviews she has conducted with a wide variety of authors.Kalb is in conversation with Susan Coll, the best-selling author of eight novels, including The Literati, Real Life and Other Fictions, Bookish People, and The Stager, a New York Times and Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice. Her novel Acceptance was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Moment Magazine, NPR.org, and Atlantic.com. She is the events advisor at Politics and Prose Bookstore.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781627206426?ic_referral=ei73PTKl6loUw63pU6Vkyh0A-65zb0ysorHeN2ipJ9wwMyw5ch6OyoKhiXIpb5WSaq3QV2VDgB-YTGfVYIjqgUbSU6qb9vfIVifCNxcxu8-1Yqq_pZPTZ_JBNKS9IuyOfmxCfkk

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