The problem with creating a protagonist in a crime series and writing her in the first-person voice is that often readers – and my friends – confuse her traits with my own. Alex Cooper is a prosecutor in New York City – a job I held for thirty years – but unlike...
The Five Most Influential Movies People gravitate toward a favorite film for a variety of reasons – for a hearty laugh or needed escape – but there are always a few movies that are profoundly mesmerizing, ones that we keep coming back to time and again. As a writer...
THREE ALBUMS AND TWO BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE When I was in middle school I, like most people at that age, was “really in to” the same music all my friends were “really in to”: A lot of U2, a lot of REM, and a lot of late 80s DC-area punk rock, since this was...
If I had to pin point a period of time that inspired me to write crime thrillers, I would have to go back to the middle of the 1990's. I was reaching my late teens and the sort of films I was watching were evolving. I no longer felt so in awe of science-fiction and...
My top 5 TV shows (in no particular order) 1. I’ve always been intrigued by cults, their charismatic leaders, and the devoted followers. That’s why THE FOLLOWING naturally drew my attention. Joe Carroll, the villain, is an absolute mesmerizing perfect leader. 2....
THE INSTANT ENEMY by Ross Macdonald When I first decided to become a film producer in 1974, I called Ken Millar (Ross Macdonald) and asked him if he’d write a screenplay for me based on one of his books. He’d never worked on a film before. We chose The...
