Something Old: When the Time is Right, You Know It
The writer’s dilemma is time. (Perhaps that everybody’s dilemma, but I digress.) Writers are blessed/cursed with fertile imaginations that don’t...
Mostly Good and Very Bad: Five Memorable Women in Crime Fiction
I chose these female characters for their agency. No man pushes them around. No man hems them in with their expectation of feminine behavior. And I...
FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: Liar Thief by May Rinaldi
Two childhood friends: one killer, one cop.
Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
Our Noble Selves is a delightful comic novel, one that only Kate Atkinson can write. While crimes do occur, the primary “action” surrounds the formulation and execution of 1951’s “Festival of Britain,” a grand, post-war, feel-good bash. It’s a major effort to lift the UK out of the doldrums following the trauma and destruction of WWII.
INTERVIEW WITH YISHAY ISHI RON
DOG THE GIRL WHO RODE THE WHITE LION YISHAY ISHI RON DOG and The Girl Who Rode the White Lion by Yishay Ishi Ron are very powerful novels....
INTERVIEW WITH CLARA AND JULIA KUPERBERG
A new documentary by Clara and Julia Kuperberg, “Hollywood and Hitler,” explores the influence the Nazis exerted on American movie studios in the...
