This week Speaking of Mysteries takes a break to catch up on its reading But we’ll be back on Monday April 20 with our next series of interviews: Christopher Brookmyre on Dead Girl Walking, his most recent Jack Parlabane mystery Marsha Clark on her foreword for the new edition of Meyer Levin’s Compulsion from Fig Tree… Read more »
Posts By: Nancie Clare
Episode 47: M.J. Carter
Exotic doesn’t even begin to describe the setting of The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter’s debut crime fiction novel: India in the mid-1830’s complete with tiger hunts, bags of jewels and the pursuit of the mysterious Thuggee cult through the jungles and along the Grand Truck Road Photo of M.J. Carter ©Roderick Field
Episode 46: Sara Paretsky
In 1982 when most female characters in mystery fiction were femme fatales, victims or nosy neighbors, Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski started investigating on the mean streets of Chicago Sara talks about how characters reveal things about themselves, as was the case with V.I.’s close friend Lotty in her current Critical Mass, her tenure… Read more »
Episode 45: Catriona McPherson
According to Cat, when she learned about the Edgar Award nomination for her stand alone mystery, The Day She Died, the Scottish crime fiction writer lost complete control of her dialect and wrote to a U.S. editor that she was “chuffed as little mince balls” Les Klinger and I also spoke to Cat about her Dandy… Read more »
Upcoming Interviews: Catriona McPherson & Sara Paretsky
In individual interviews, the Presidents of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, respectively, talk about the state of crime fiction writing as well as their own works
Episode 44: Owen Laukkanen & Owen Matthews
The Stolen Ones, Owen Laukkanen’s fourth installment of the Stevens and Windermere series, goes down some very, very dark roads as the pair of investigators criss-cross the U.S. hunting down human traffickers And Owen Matthews, Laukkanen’s literary alter-ego, joins us to talk about his recently released YA crime fiction novel, How to Win at… Read more »
Episode 43: Julia Dahl
It’s not just the murder of a Hasidic woman in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood that newbie journo Rebekah Roberts is on the trail of in Invisible City, Julia Dahl’s Edgar Award–nominated debut mystery Photo of Julia Dahl ©Chasi Annexy
Episode 42: C.J. Box
The course of Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s life never did run smooth. With his daughter April in grave condition in a Billings, Montana hospital and his best friend Nate Romanowski missing, Joe has a full plate in C.J. Box’s latest, Endangered And then there’s also the 21 dead sage grouse… Find out more… Read more »
Episode 41: David Joy
Where All Light Tends to Go, David Joy’s debut novel, explores an Appalachian Noir realm where fate and hope collide Is there a choice between the worlds of drugs and murder or love and redemption for Jacob McNeely? Photo of David Joy ©Alan Rhew
Episode 40: Denise Hamilton
The author of the Eve Diamond series of mysteries, editor of volumes one and two of Los Angeles Noir anthologies of short stories whose settings are in Southern California and contributor to In the Company of Sherlock Holmes anthology of short stories talks about mysteries, the dark side of sunny SoCal beaches and perfume … Read more »
