In Leslie Baird‘s debut thriller Salomé, an American journalist named Courtney follows a magnetic French woman to a remote town in France, where fascination quickly curdles into paranoia. As Courtney becomes entangled with Salomé’s unsettling family, a mysterious wellness empire, and whispers of a cult obsessed with immortality, she must decide whether she’s uncovering the story that could define her career or walking willingly into something deadly.
Baird currently lives in Europe and received an MFA in fiction from Sewanee, the University of the South.
We asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing.
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