# Mike Briggs, husband of author Patrica Briggs, has unexpectedly died

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**Created:** [January 26, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-briggs-husband-of-author-patrica-briggs-has-unexpectedly-died/778199 "2017-01-26T03:10:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-briggs-husband-of-author-patrica-briggs-has-unexpectedly-died/778199/1 "2017-01-26T03:10:01Z")

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As the title says [Mike Briggs](http://www.hurog.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=bgpkm1upaa9un7j9u1jv2ivo82&topic=8133.0) has died unexpectedly on Monday. He was the husband of author Patrica Briggs. She is best know for her Mercy Thompson series, although she was writing well received books before Moon Called the first of the Mercy Thompson books. He ran her website.

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**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-briggs-husband-of-author-patrica-briggs-has-unexpectedly-died/778199/2 "2017-01-26T07:58:10Z")

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I saw this on her Facebook author page. I gather the death was sudden. He had been posting very recently.

He will be missed in the Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Filking, Con and a number of other communities. I was saddened to hear of his loss.