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Lana Waite was a mystery writer who grew up in Seattle, studied architecture
at the University of Washington, married a navy man, and lived in Northern
California.
Buried In Burrywood was her first book and she made up the setting from memories of living in the Pacific Northwest. Burrywood is a quaint coastal town on the shore of Puget Sound, with a group of eclectic, close-knit townspeople involved in solving a rash of murders. Buried in Burywood was a semi-finalist in the 2005 Independent Publishers Awards (IPPY) for Mystery.
Her second book, The Madd Mountain Murders, takes place in the California mountains where her family skied. Tall Trees Lodge doesn't exist but it would be a nice place to visit.
Her third and final book is Cobwebs And Contraband. Like the others, it's set at a fictitious place - a grand old hotel on the ocean in Southern California.
Lana Waite passed away on July 5th, 2006 following a long battle with cancer. She will be sorely missed by her husband Fred, children and grandchildren.
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The town of Burrywood seems very real, as if it is based on an
actual place. Is there a Burrywood?
Burrywood was created entirely in my head but I hope there are
many towns just like it in this world, places where multi-generations stick
together, make their homes, and raise families. When I grew up in Seattle there
were about forty cousins close by. Family picnics were grand affairs. Vacation
trips included lots of playmates. Now the family is scattered. It takes an
important event to get everyone together. For instance, we planned a one
hundredth birthday party for my dad. For something that important people were
coming from Hawaii, California, and Arizona. Unhappily the date we had set was
ten days after 9/11. The celebration never happened. If we’d all lived
together in a town like Burrywood the observance would have gone on as planned.
Why did you write about such a small town? And what do you like
most about Burrywood?
Small towns are cozy. Everyone knows everyone else very well
and, if they are lucky, everybody agrees to disagree. That means that—even
though opinions conflict—differences are allowed, little things are
overlooked, and there are no warring factions. Burrywood is like that...
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