Delia Owens’ thriller “Where the Crawdads Sing” has been an inescapable best seller since it hit shelves in 2018. After four years and more than 12 million copies sold worldwide, it’s now also a film produced by Reese Witherspoon. The film, released last week and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and David Strathairn, brought in $17 million on its opening weekend in theaters. It’s a success story that seems plucked from a fairy tale, a first-time novelist, now 73, becoming a worldwide sensation with her page-turning story of a plucky girl from the marshes of North Carolina suspected of murder. But that’s not the only reason people are talking about Owens: The author is herself wanted for questioning in a decades-old murder. Read the full story at the link in our bio.