The LAT’s Scott Timberg profiles Marianne Wiggins as she releases a new novel, The Shadow Catcher (out Tuesday from Simon & Schuster), and plots her next projects. “I’m just head over heels committed to writing a series of California novels.”
“I was in London 16 years,” she said, “and never got a good story out of that city.” California, she said, she expects to sustain her for years to come.



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