I came up with the premise for The Last to See Her because I have sisters, and we’ve always had great relationships. One day, I started to think about worst case scenarios in a sibling relationship, and what would happen if two sisters went on a trip and only one returned?
Eddie Mahler, the lead detective in my debut police procedural THE SILENCED WOMEN, is haunted by his failure in a two-year-old case to prevent the murder of a young woman and to convict the man he knows to be her killer.
When I completed my first thriller, “Tell Me My Name”, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
In my dream, they were in the base exchange, the equivalent of a general store at U.S. military outposts. I knew it was night, and I knew the place was closed.
When I was writing my feminist noir debut novel, The Lady Upstairs, I turned to other noir novels (and films!) for inspiration on crafting a character that I wanted to be both a throwback to the genre I love and also, her own creation. I
THE SECRET THING by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen is a story about sisterhood, and how a band of women supported each other through harsh times. The author noted, “Years ago, a suburban madam was arrested in my town. Back then I had never heard of such a thing and was...
