Episode 40: Denise Hamilton

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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

 

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Articles for LA, The Los Angeles Times Magazine written by Denise Hamilton

“Basic Black”: 20 Noir Essentials

“Dark Wave”: Sinister Undercurrents Lie Everywhere, even in Southern California’s Seemingly Wholesome World of Surfing

Uncommon Scents: The Perfume Column by Denise Hamilton

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Upcoming Interviews: Denise Hamilton, David Joy, C.J. Box, Julia Dahl and Owen Laukkanen

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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 Light Tends to Go, his much-anticipated debut novel.

March 9, 2015 C.J. Box discusses Endangered, his latest Joe Pickett novel. Trust us, Joe’s life, which is never easy or smooth, gets especially rocky in this installment of the series.

March 10, 2015 On the publication day of the paper back of Invisible City, Julia Dahl‘s Edgar Award-nominated first novel, we chat with her about her protagonist, newbie journo Rebekah Roberts, and what awaits her in the followup novel, Run You Down.

March 16, 2015 Owen Laukkanen joins the podcast to discuss The Stolen Ones, the fourth installment in his Stevens and Windermere series.

 

Episode 37: Michael Kardos

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Before He Finds Her features the well-cultivated “creep factor” that every psychological suspense novel needs

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Ramsey Miller’s plan to have a block party for the end of the world sounded like a good one, at least to him. Until his wife and—at least everyone thought—his daughter were murdered. Except his daughter survived and has been in hiding until the day she felt compelled to begin the journey to the truth.

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Episode 36: Sophie Hannah

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Justice, poetic and otherwise, is one of the things being sought in The Carrier, the most recent addition to Sophie Hannah’s Zailer and Waterhouse series of crime novels

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Sophie Hannah, a self-described “structure freak,” talks about the common ground shared by poetry and crime fiction, an event that happened to her that inspired part of the story and whether or not there will be another Poirot novel.

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Episode 35: Ned Beauman

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What could possibly go wrong when Raf—who happens to suffer from a circadian rhythm disorder—the world of pirate radio and the drug-infused world of dance raves in South London find themselves caught in the crossfire between an unscrupulous mining company and a cadre of Burmese revolutionaries? In Glow, lots.

 

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Ned thoughtfully provided an FAQ to answer such questions as “how did you get the idea for the book,” “why did you decide on writing a thriller after ‘willfully confounding postmodern black comedies’” and “why did you decide to set Glow in the modern day?” You can find the answers to those three questions, as well as others, at Ned Beauman’s blog. As well as a Spotify playlist of “semi-recent music that helped to inspire [Glow].”

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