Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune

Like the main character of his novel “I Become Her,” Joe Hart is married. Unlike her, he has not murdered anyone. Or, at least, he jokes, “None that they’ve caught me for.”

That’s not all Hart is cagey about. He lives in northern Minnesota, but prefers not to specify where, and he doesn’t want to name his wife or two children, a daughter who recently had Hart’s first grandchild and a son with nonverbal autism.

This much, we know: Joe Hart is his real name, he’s 42 and he writes ripping good yarns. That’s evidenced by the Mystery Writers of America giving him their equivalent of an Oscar, the Edgar (Allan Poe), in 2023 for “Or Else.” And by his new “I Become Her,” in which Imogen is on a honeymoon cruise with her husband when she suspects he’s bee

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