Welcome to this edition of Southern Illinois Wonders! Acclaimed novelist Laura Benedict is a southern Illinois based writer. Her latest novel, Bliss House, will be in bookstores next month.
As well as an author of dark suspense novels, she's also a mom, a wife, and charmingly paranoid...

Laura Benedict's latest novel, Bliss House, is scheduled for release June 15, 2014. Laura is the author of six novels including Devil's Oven. Her blog is Notes from the Handbasket .
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