Our schedule of interviews for the rest of October is shaping up to be great Les Klinger, fresh from winning an Anthony Award for Anthologies at Bouchercon 2015 for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, which he co-edited with Laurie R. King, will be interviewing Sarah Weinman on Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the… Read more »
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Death in Veracruz by Héctor Aguilar Camín
In the early 1980’s, Mexican historian and journalist Héctor Aguilar Camín wrote his mystery novel about the intersection of oil, politics, money and corruption in Mexico. The translation by Chandler Thompson comes just as Mexico is about to privatize Pemex, the country’s national oil company, an event of historic proportions that goes to the very heart of Mexico’s modern… Read more »
Upcoming Interviews: Hallie Ephron, Arthur Kerns, Matthew Guinn and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
September 2015 is shaping up to be another great month of interviews for Speaking of Mysteries Hallie Ephron, will talk about her latest novel, Night Night, Sleep Tight, which is a crackerjack mystery that’s been called both “a satire and a celebration of Hollywood” Former FBI Agent and consultant to the CIA, Arthur Kerns, talks about his… Read more »
Upcoming Interviews: Sharon Bolton, Robert Rotstein and Stephen Hunter
Our next three interviews will take us all over time and geography Sharon Bolton’s Little Black Lies is set in the Falkland Islands in the mid-1990s In The Bomb Maker’s Son, Robert Rotstein stays close to home (at least for us) in L.A.’s Westside, but the story begins during the protests to the Vietnam War Stephen Hunter’s… Read more »
Upcoming Interviews: Christopher Brookmyre, Marsha Clark, Tom Nolan & Attica Locke
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 »
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
Upcoming Interviews: Denise Hamilton, David Joy, C.J. Box, Julia Dahl and Owen Laukkanen
The next few weeks are an embarrassment of riches for lovers of fiction in general and crime fiction in particular. February 23, 2015 we chat with Denise Hamilton about her short story in In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, editing both volumes of Los Angeles Noir and perfume. March 2, 2015 David Joy talks about Where All… Read more »
Upcoming: Ned Beauman, Sophie Hannah and Michael Kardos
The stories written by the authors featured in the next three episodes take us all over the map: Ned Beauman’s Glow from Myanmar to South London; Sophie Hannah’s The Carrier from Germany to England; and Michael Kardos’ Before He Finds Her from West Virginia to the New Jersey Shore
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 »
