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Victoria Abbott
Mary Jane and Victoria Maffini
Book Collector Mystery series

maffini_maryjanevictoriaOn writing together
Mary Jane: Victoria showed me how to lighten up, take more chances, and enjoy more wimsey in the writing (and Wimsey too, but that's the next book, The Sayers Swindle).

Victoria: In the course of writing The Christie Curse, my mother taught me about using the peaks and valleys of plotting in order to keep people engaged.

On reading together
When Victoria was just learning to read, we enjoyed Frog and Toad are Friends (an I Can Read book by Arnold Lobel ). We loved these gentle, funny characters and their collaboration. We still do. Later, we shared the Narnia series, especially The Lion,The Witch and the Wardrobe, read together in the "good" living room on the sofa. This was such a special time cuddled up together with books that were magical, memorable, and a little bit scary.

Victoria Abbott is a collaboration between the always funny and creative artist, photographer, and short story author, Victoria Maffini and her mother, Mary Jane Maffini, award-winning author of three mystery series and two dozen short stories. Their three miniature dachshunds are understandably outraged that a pug and some Siamese cats have wiggled their way into the series. Visit their sites victoria-abbott.com and maryjanemaffini.com.

A Victoria Abbott Reading Listabbott_thechristiecurse

Book Collector Mystery series
The Christie Curse (2013)
The Sayers Swindle (2013)