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War. Invasion. Global instability. The tail-end of omicron. Financial tremors. These are not the ingredients for a relaxing afternoon spent reading on the couch. However,

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The search for a missing masterpiece is at the center of Lisa Barr’s thrilling historical mystery, “Woman on Fire.” Chicago journalist Jules Roth is excited when her

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Ambitious fledgling reporter Jules Roth, the heroine of this masterly, multifaceted thriller from Barr (The Unbreakables), lands a job working for her personal hero, investigative

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Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr March 1, 2022 Lisa Erickson: Lisa.Erickson@harpercollins.com Tina Andreadis: tina.andreadis@harpercollins.com Harper  ISBN-10 : ‎ 0063040883 Julie Cantrell   “delivers a message

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Jules Roth is an investigative reporter and wants nothing more than to work for Dan Mansfield. She barges into his office asking for a job

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Lisa and I discuss Woman on Fire, the 2013 event that inspire this book, how the ownership of certain pieces of art is one of

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Lisa Barr, who in the 1990s edited In Jerusalem, the local supplement of The Jerusalem Post, has written two previous novels, The Unbreakables and Fugitive

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Sharon Stone (The Flight Attendant, Ratched) has optioned the rights to Lisa Barr’s upcoming novel Woman on Fire, inking a deal to produce and star in a film adaptation.

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It was June 1991; back then I was a young jour­nal­ist just out of grad­u­ate school. I was assigned by my edi­tor at a women’s mag­a­zine to cov­er an exhib­it

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