Secret societies, dimly-lit halls, teetering stacks of time-worn books and coffee-stained papers—dark academia has so many tangible elements, but the lifeblood pulsing through its veins is its undying pursuit of forbidden knowledge.
Six Mile Store started life a long time before I got around to actually writing it – over twenty years before, in fact, in a dusty little store sitting at a crossroads in rural Arkansas.
When Larry and Rosemary started writing together decades ago, they hadn’t even considered writing mysteries—until they visited Rosemary’s father, Dr. Saul K. Pollack, a prominent psychoanalyst in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
My debut novel Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests started life many years before I got down to the business of actually writing it.
I was scrolling on Facebook when I saw a post from a parent of a former student of mine.
The inspiration for The Meaning of the Murder stems from one of the most pivotal and haunting moments of my life: 9/11.
