I am super happy! My detective novel, Hanging Softly in the Night: A Detective Nick Larson Novel has received the 2025 Book Viral Longlisted Millennium Book Award!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What an honor! And, to boot, the review given was incredible! Here is a portion of the review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Alonso-Sierra weaves dark, atmospheric descriptions that engage all senses”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The BookViral Review: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra\u2019s novel \u201cHanging Softly in the Night,\u201d featuring Detective Nick Larson, is an intriguing, suspenseful read that expertly intertwines mystery and psychological complexity. From the very beginning, readers are thrust into an unsettling atmosphere when Detective Nick Larson is called to investigate a suspicious suicide on New York\u2019s Upper East Side. It soon becomes clear that the suicide is likely staged, dragging Nick and his partner, Vic Sacco, into a meticulous and chilling murder investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What makes this book particularly compelling is its depth of character development… (for the entire post, go to the link below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/bookviralreviews.com\/book-reviews\/hard-boiled-mysteries\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am super happy! My detective novel, Hanging Softly in the Night: A Detective Nick Larson Novel has received the 2025 Book Viral Longlisted Millennium Book Award! What an honor! And, to boot, the review given was incredible! Here is a portion of the review: “Alonso-Sierra weaves dark, atmospheric descriptions that engage all senses” The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}