The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021
When I read that Steph Cha was taking the reins as the editor of the long running The Best American Mystery Stories annual anthology (which was also...
INTERVIEW WITH EMMA HAUGHTON
The Dark Emma Haughton HBGUSA PUB Oct 19, 2021 The Dark by Emma Haughton uses the setting as a main character. This locked door mystery is a story...
5 Songs That Inspired FAN CLUB
I’m lucky to be able to write most anywhere, and under plenty of less-than-ideal conditions (i.e. the New York City subway). But I prefer to listen to music when I’m working, as it fuels my creativity and inspires me.
Which Crime?
For me, the question has never been why write about crime but, rather, which crime.
INTERVIEW WITH JOHN C. McMANUS
ISLAND INFERNOS John C. McManus Penguin Random House Pub Nov 9th, 2021 Island Infernos by John C. McManus is the second in a trilogy about the...
FIVE THINGS with CLEA SIMON
My new Hold Me Down doesn’t come with a playlist (not yet). But enough folks have asked me what I was listening to while writing this rock-and-roll suspense that I realized I needed to think about the songs that inspired its tough protagonist, Gal Raver, a clubland survivor with a history beyond the hits. So, yeah, these songs are in regular rotation on my playlist. More to the point, they’d be on Gal’s, too.








