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On Wednesday, June 11 at 4:00, Betsy will be reading from Last Place Called Home at the Lee Public Library in Lee, Massachusetts, followed by a talk by a member of South Berkshire Recovery.

Betsy is interviewed in this recent article by Adrienne Matei in the Guardian on the phenomenon of hypernormalization.

Last Place Called Home is a category finalist in the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

Read Betsy’s essay on CrimeReads: Drugs and Distance: Taking on the Opioid Crisis in Thriller Form

Last Place Called Home is a Political Thriller finalist in the 2024 American Fiction Awards.

Last Place Called Home is a Mystery/Suspense finalist in the 2024 International Book Awards.

Last Place Called Home featured in Hampshire College News.

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July 11, 2024 interview with Betsy about Last Place Called Home on WHMP’s Talk the Talk with Bill Newman and Buz Eisenberg.

Betsy is interviewed about population on the NY public radio show and podcast, On the Media: Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies

Cover of Last Place Called Home: an atmospheric scene of trees, water, and sky
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Last Place Called Home

As a small New England town becomes embattled in the drug war, single mother Laura Everett finds herself on the brink of love and her teenage son on the brink of disaster. To save him and his friends from potentially deadly consequences, she is forced out of her comfort zone and into action.

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