On this episode of Milford House Mysteries co-hosts Joan West and Sherry Knowlton interview author Tara Lush. Lush a Florida-based author and journalist. She's an RWA Rita finalist, an Amtrak writing fellow and the winner of the George C. Polk award for environmental journalism. Since 2008, she's been a reporter with The Associated Press in Florida, covering crime, alligators, natural disasters and politics. She also writes contemporary romance set in tropical locations under the name Tamara Lush. We'll talk with Lush about her leap from Romance to Mystery and what's in the Sunshine State's air that creates so many Florida-based writers.\n\nMilford House Mysteries Hosts - Sherry Knowlton is the author of the\xa0Alexa Williams\xa0series of murder mysteries including\xa0Dead of Autumn,\xa0Dead of Summer,\xa0Dead of Spring, and Dead of Winter. Joan West is the author of the Carlisle Crime Cases series including\xa0Dying for Vengeance,\xa0Courting Doubt and Darkness,\xa0Darkness at First\xa0Light, Had a Dying Fall and Things Strangled.\n\n\n--