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...
![](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7161a73/2147483647/strip/true/crop/230x346+0+0/resize/880x1324!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwsiu%2Ffiles%2F201405%2Fbliss_house_cover.jpg)
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 .
Southern Illinois Wonders is produced in collaboration with the Illinois Humanities Council, a non-profit organization that fosters cultural vitality in communities throughout the state. More information is available on line at www.prairie.org.
Theme music for Southern Illinois Wonders is provide by Robert Bowlin.