sad news

[mmegaera]

One of my favorite authors, Barbara Mertz aka Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters, has died.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/08/08/mystery-writer-barbara-mertz-dies-at-85/2632951/

Somewhere out there, the Emersons are mourning, too.

Comments

[dfledermaus]

Oh, I hadn't seen that. I drifted away from her series' in the last 10 years, but I have about 20 of her earlier books between the Michaels/Peters pen names. Very sorry to lose her - she wrote some wonderful characters.

[threeringedmoon]

Yeah, sad here. I saw the news on Facebook first. I met her briefly many years ago: she seemed like a lovely person as well as one of my favorite writers.

[annathepiper]

Oh noooooo. :(

I am kinda not surprised--she was really old--but nooooooooo. :(