Karen Odden's interest in the Victorian era and specifically railway crashes goes back to her New York University doctoral dissertation, which explored how the medical, parliamentary, and literary representations of railway disasters helped to create a discourse out of which Freud and others fashioned their ideas of trauma.Karen currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband, her two children, and her ridiculously cute beagle, Rosy.
Genres: Historical Mystery
Series
Books containing stories by Karen Odden

New York State of Crime (2024)
(Murder New York Style, book 6)
edited by
D M Barr and Joseph R G De Marco

SoWest: Love Kills (2021)
(Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter Anthology, book 9)
edited by
Deborah J Ledford
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The Lace Widow (2023)
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