“September Fair” is the fifth in Lourey’s lighthearted series featuring Mira James, Nut Goodie-loving librarian and reporter who lives in a double-wide trailer in Battle Lake, Minn. For a while, I honestly thought I couldn’t kill off Milkfed Mary, so I had to make her a kind of unlikable character, a real milk dud.” “So I changed the name of the competition to Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy. “I do love the Princess Kays, and I didn’t want to mess with that,” Lourey said in an interview from her home in St. “I’m either very brave or very stupid,” Lourey says with a laugh, acknowledging that the Princess Kay competition and butter sculpting are beloved State Fair traditions that don’t fit well with murder. In her new Murder-by-Month mystery, “September Fair,” Lourey kills off a dairy princess in the State Fair booth where the girls’ heads are carved in butter. Jess Lourey should get an award for being the bravest author in Minnesota.
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