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Maine Writers Index - Detail (Return to List) Karen Saum (1935 - )Genre: MysteryMystery writer Karen Saum (born 17 Jan. 1935), whose sleuth is lesbian ex-nun/writer Brigid Donovan, lives in the Belfast (ME) area and sets her books in Maine: Murder is Relative (1990; set in Quebec City, rural Maine, and Manhattan), Murder is Germaine (1991; set in Maine and the country of Panama) and Murder is Material (1994; set in Maine). She's also written another, non-series book, I Never Read Thoreau: A Mystery Novel (1996), set on small Monte Cassino island off the coast of Maine. It's part mystery, part history, party introspection, and involves the smuggling of illegal aliens into Canada. Saum's interview of May Sarton appears in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews: Seventh Series (1986). Saum is also a peace activist. |