Night Vision A Jane Lawless Mystery [Paperback]

Ellen Hart was named the 2017 MWA Grand Master, the most distinguished lifetime achievement award offered in the mystery community.

Joanna Kasimir, an old friend of Jane Lawless's, left town years ago to make it big in Hollywood. She succeeded, but stardom had a price. Early on, Joanna met a man who quickly went from being a dalliance to a stalker. A decade has passed since she sent him to prison, but just as she has returned to Minneapolis to perform at Jane's friend Cordelia Thorn's theater,Joanna receives one of his ominous calling cards.

Joanna refuses to let fear control her life---she can't. Not again. So she goes to Jane, restauranteur and amateur sleuth, for help. But can Jane protect her from a man who refuses to be anyone's one-night stand?

A deadly game of cat and mouse,Night Visionproves to be one of Ellen Hart's best mysteries yet.

1. How would you describe Jane Lawless? Is she as easy to understand as Cordelia Thorn? Do you think that was Hart's intent?

2. Jane and David used each other as a beard in high school and college. That was over twenty years ago. Do you think this still happens today? Why? Why not?

3. Joanna has a moral dilemma. She can stay in the Twin Cities and do the show at the Allen Grimby repertory theater, fulfill her contract and her promise
to Cordelia  and be stalked, fearing for her life the entire time. Or she can break the contract so that she can go off and do a movie, break her promise to one of her dearest friends  and be more or less safe from her stalker for the time she's out of the country. What would you have done?

4. Was there redemption in this book? For any of the characters?

5. American writer Flannery O'Connor defended her use of violence in fiction by saying that characters in violent situations are forced to discover their most essential selves. If that's so, what to you think Joanna learned?

6. Did you enjoy/dislike the way the past and lC5