by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 12, 2013 | Books
RESURRECTING JIMMY PIGEON “Mr. Diamond, I came here to talk about my husband.” “Of course you did, Evelyn,” I said. I think my voice may have cracked. “Have you thought about going to the police?” “Finding my husband is already of interest to the Los Angeles Police...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 13, 2013 | Books, Features
Girl Three, my recently released gritty and glamorous DC thriller, was plotted on the balcony of an eleventh-floor condo with a view of the US Capitol. At the time, I was a new resident of Washington, inspired by the city’s energy and charisma—the people, the places,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 3, 2013 | Books
WOUNDED PREY is a very personal novel for me, despite being a work of fiction. It was written during a 3-4 month period over twenty-five years ago, and I would challenge any other crime-thriller author to compare my over two decades of rejections from agents and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 17, 2013 | Books
The first Maureen Coughlin novel, The Devil She Knows, was supposed to be the end, not the beginning. It was my third Staten Island novel. It put a neat cap on a crime fiction trilogy about where I grew up, and finally gave a novel to a character I had carried and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 9, 2013 | Books
Behind the Book, or The Story Behind My Story Jenny Milchman Originally in Crimespree 49 Writing a mystery is something of a mystery itself. Where do ideas come from? How do all those words get on the page? And what would make an otherwise perfectly pleasant person...
