A historian of postwar Europe and a huge fan of noir, Lisa Lieberman writes dark, immersive mysteries set in the 1950s featuring blacklisted Hollywood people on the lam in dangerous international locales. ALL THE WRONG PLACES, her adaptation of the first book in the Cara Walden historical noir series for television, won the Stowe Story Labs 2024 Stacey A. Davis fellowship for women screenwriters over 40. She is currently adapting the second book, BURNING COLD, as a feature film.
Projects
Burning Cold
Budapest: 1956. Newlywed Cara Walden’s brother Zoltán has disappeared in the middle of the Hungarian revolution, harboring a deadly wartime secret. Will Cara or the Soviets find him first?
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