Posted on July 29, 2022 at 11:16 a.m. EDT
Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele interviews author Aggie Blum Thompson about her second novel “All The Dirty Secrets”
Author Aggie Blum Thompson’s second novel “All The Dirty Secrets” uses 1990s Dewey Beach as part of the backdrop for a murder mystery.
In this week’s Arts Playlist, Thompson joins Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele to discuss the book and how vacationing each summer in Dewey Beach and Rehoboth Beach provided some inspiration.
A new murder mystery novel uses Dewey Beach and Washington D.C. as background.
All The Dirty Secrets comes from Bethesda, Maryland author Aggie Blum Thompson, “It’s about a mother who is haunted by a friend’s drawing 25 years ago at Beach Week in Dewey in the 90s. And then flash forward to today when there’s another drowning, this time involving the daughter’s best friend. And the daughter is convinced that these two deaths are connected, but the mother doesn’t want to believe it.”
Thompson is a native New Yorker, but after moving to Maryland, she began vacationing in Dewey Beach and Rehoboth Beach, providing some of the inspiration for this book.
“I knew there’s a very dark secret at the center of this book,” Thompson said. “But then there are a lot of – sort of – smaller secrets if you will – secrets that teenage daughters keep from their parents and secrets even the parents keep from their children because they don’t want them to know everything. So I just put it all together and called it All The Dirty Secrets.”
Before becoming a writer, Thompson worked as a newspaper reporter, covering police, courts and trials.
She is already working on a third novel – focused on a murder that occurs at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C.
Thompson will be in Sussex County next month signing copies of “All The Dirty Secrets.”
On Aug. 4, Thompson will be at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. and from 18:00 to 20:00 she is at Bethany Beach Books.
And you can get more information about Thompson on her website here.
Delaware Public Media’s arts coverage is made possible in part by support from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
