When Edgar Award-winning, bestselling novelist Lisa Scottoline (rhymes with Lamborghini) makes her daily word count, she rewards herself with a plate of pasta, a glass of Lambrusco, and a bracing walk in the Pennsylvania countryside with her recalcitrant, aging Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Boone and Kit trailing behind. Ahead of her book tour for her new domestic thriller, “The Truth About the Devlins” (her 36th novel), Scottoline spoke with the Toronto Star from her farmhouse outside Philadelphia, a property she also shares with a rescue pony named Raphael and seven hens she calls the “women’s chorus” because of her affection for Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas.
With over 30 million books in print in 35 countries, Scottoline has come a long way from when she published her debut “Everywhere That Mary Went” in 1994, a time when she had yet to build her readership, and, more often than not, few, if any, came to her book signings. …