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Why is the 'Where the Crawdads Sing' author wanted for questioning over a murder? What you need to know

Delia Owens attends the "Where The Crawdads Sing" photo call at The West Hollywood Edition on June 7, 2022, in West Hollywood, California.

Delia Owens' 2018 novel "Where the Crawdads Sing" has sold more than 12 million copies and been adapted into a feature film produced by Reese Witherspoon; starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, the movie opens in theaters this weekend.

Owens' debut work of fiction is a romantic thriller about an outcast young woman on trial for the murder of a local bigwig in 1960s North Carolina. Hinging on a sympathetic but perhaps unreliable female narrator, it

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