In The Convert’s Song, Sebastian Rotella picks up the story of Valentín Pescatore, first introduced in Triple Crossing With his time patrolling The Line, as the border between San Diego and Tijuana is known, now in the past, ProPublica.com’s award-winning investigative journalist Sebastian Rotella’s Pescatore has relocated to Buenos Aires and joined forces… Read more »
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Episode 30: Steph Cha
Private investigator Juniper Song returns in Beware, Beware, Steph Cha’s second mystery novel Drugs, celebrities, artists and murder collide in Los Angeles’ neighborhoods from Hollywood and Beverly Hills to Koreatown in Steph Cha’s latest novel. Photo of Steph Cha ©Susie Cha
Episode 29: Craig Robertson
Scottish crime writer Robertson takes a break from the mean streets of Glasgow—the site of his series—for The Last Refuge, his stand alone mystery that takes place in the Faroe Islands Although Scotland has no shortage of remote islands battered by lashing seas, Craig Robertson sets his latest in the Faroes, hundreds of… Read more »
The Mysterious Scent of Selene in Robert Olen Butler’s “The Star of Istanbul”
Just what was that perfume—described as a combination of fresh mown hay, musk and lavender—Selene Bourgani wore that so captured Christopher Marlowe Cobb when he met her on the Lusitania? We asked Denise Hamilton, award-winning mystery writer and perfumista This is how Robert Olen Butler describes the scent that so intrigued Kit Cobb, “Nothing… Read more »
We Break for Bouchercon!
When it comes to writers of mysteries and thrillers, Bouchercon is an embarrassment of riches This week Speaking of Mysteries is stepping back from the microphone and traveling 35 miles or so south to Long Beach, CA to join fellow fans of the genre at Bouchercon 2014: Murder at the Beach. Which means that… Read more »
Episode 28: Tom Nolan
According to the critic of mysteries and thrillers for The Wall Street Journal, we are in a Golden Age of crime fiction Who better to discuss the state of mysteries and thrillers than a critic who specializes in the genre? The topics Tom discusses run the gamut:… Read more »
Episode 27: John Lawton
Sweet Sunday, John Lawton’s newly published stand alone novel, is a mystery wrapped inside of an odyssey that jumps through time and geography, starting and ending in New York City in the late ’60s Photo of John Lawton ©Nick Lockett
Episode 26: Bradford Morrow
Murder, dismemberment, stalking and blackmail are all part of the journey The Forgers takes through the territory where love and books overlap. If the first five words of The Forgers—”They never found his hands.”—don’t intrigue you, you might want to check to see if you have a pulse. Photo of Bradford Morrow ©Jessamine… Read more »
Critic’s Choice: Tom Nolan, reviewer of mysteries for “The Wall Street Journal”
The man with—at least for fans of crime fiction and thrillers—one of the best jobs in the world, shares his opinions on the state of genre Tom Nolan, whose biography of California noir writer Ross MacDonald was nominated for an Edgar Award, talks mysteries, thrillers, must-reads and gives his honest opinion of Gillian Flynn’s Gone… Read more »
Leslie S. Klinger on the Road with his “The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft”
Getting inside the works of the American master of horror and science fiction. See if Les is coming to a bookstore near you.
