Crime novelist and former Dispatch journalist Julia Keller talks about her newest book, why cemeteries are great places to find character names, and how a limerick helped her get her first reporting job.
Books: Columbus author Julia Keller bases ‘Bell Elkins’ crime novels on challenges of opioid-ravaged West Virginia

<p>Crime novelist and former Dispatch journalist Julia Keller talks about her newest book, why cemeteries are great places to find character names, and how a limerick helped her get her first reporting job.</p>
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