Paula Munier's "The Snow Lies Deep"

Paula Munier is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award  and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. Home at Night, the fifth book in the series, was inspired by her volunteer work as a Natural Resources Steward of New Hampshire.

Along with her love of nature, Munier credits the hero dogs of Mission K9 Rescue, her own rescue dogs, and a deep affection for New England as her series’ major influences.

A literary agent by day, she’s also written three popular books on writing: Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, and Writing with Quiet Hands, as well as Happier Every Day and the memoir Fixing Freddie: The True Story of a Boy, a Mom, and a Very, Very Bad Beagle.

Here Munier shares some thoughts about the director for an adaptation of her new Mercy Carr mystery, The Snow Lies Deep:

The Snow Lies Deep, the seventh book in my Mercy Carr mystery series from Minotaur, takes place during the countdown to Christmas in the picture-perfect Vermont village of Northshire. Everyone is in the holiday spirit—local artisans and shopkeepers, kids and parents and grandparents, church choral singers and Druid drummers alike. But when the town Santa is found murdered, it’s up to Mercy and her husband Troy and their smart-as-heck working dogs to find the Yuletide Killer before he kills again—and ruins Christmas in Northshire forever.

So we’re talking Love Actually meets Die Hard, in New England. I think it would be great to have famed Barbie director Greta Gerwig write the screenplay and direct because, well, Barbie! Mercy is the anti-Barbie, and it would be fun to see Gerwig tackle that kind of character. We know she can do Christmas (she directed Little Women) and we know she could give all those male action-movie directors a run for their money. Move over, John McTiernan and James Cameron and John Woo, here comes Greta! She’s probably already signed on to do the next Wonder Woman movie (or whatever), but Mercy Carr is a wonder woman, too. I’m just saying.

Think about it, Greta. Seriously. Meanwhile, a girl can dream….

Visit Paula Munier's website.

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My Book, The Movie: A Borrowing of Bones.

The Page 69 Test: A Borrowing of Bones.

Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2019).

My Book, The Movie: Blind Search.

The Page 69 Test: Blind Search.

My Book, The Movie: The Hiding Place.

The Page 69 Test: The Hiding Place.

Q&A with Paula Munier.

My Book, The Movie: The Wedding Plot.

The Page 69 Test: The Wedding Plot.

Writers Read: Paula Munier (July 2022).

Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2023).

My Book, The Movie: Home at Night.

The Page 69 Test: Home at Night.

My Book, The Movie: The Night Woods.

The Page 69 Test: The Night Woods.

Writers Read: Paula Munier (October 2024).

--Marshal Zeringue