Aimée Leduc is back in Murder at the Porte de Versailles, the 20th installment in Cara Black’s arrondissement-specific series that takes place in November 2001, in a fraught post-9/11 Paris. This time Aimée is racing around the 15th arrondissement, a residential part of Paris that, Cara explains, is where you move after you finish your… Read more »
Posts Tagged: mystery fiction
Episode 108: Suzanne Chazin
What happens to a police officer who mistakenly shoots an unarmed man of color? That question and more is examined in Suzanne Chazin’s timely mystery No Witness But the Moon, when her protagonist Detective Jimmy Vega responds to a call of “shots fired” at the home of a wealthy Mexican musician
Episode 103: James L’Etoile
Meet John Penley, homicide detective in the Sacramento, CA police department: In At What Cost, James L’Etoile’s debut mystery, Penley is doing the best he can to balance an investigation into a series of particularly gruesome murders with the tension of waiting for a suitable donor for his young son who needs a kidney
Episode 96: Hester Young
The secrets of the past collide with present-day betrayals in The Gates of Evangeline, Hester Young’s atmospheric genre-bending mystery that weaves loss, devotion, and hope into a Southern Gothic suspense story Photo of Hester Young ©Francine Daveta Photography
Episode 89: R. J. Koreto
Title or no title, it isn’t easy being an independent woman in Edwardian England as Lady Frances Ffolkes, the protagonist of R.J. Koreto’s debut mystery, Death on the Sapphire, finds out
Episode 75: Joe Clifford
Lamentation, Joe Clifford’s debut crime fiction novel—and first in a series—explores the region where family, addition, secrets and small town sensibilities intersect
Upcoming Interviews: Sarah Weinman and Bonnie MacBird
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 »
Episode 65: Hallie Ephron
By her own admission Hallie Ephron was late to the family business of writing, but mystery fans will agree that the wait was worth it From her first five novels, co-written with Donald Davidoff as G.H. Ephron, and her non-fiction works, to her standalone mysteries, the most recent of which is Night Night, Sleep Tight,… Read more »
Episode 62: Kelli Stanley
San Francisco’s first lady of Noir has her own tales of the City, including her most recent Miranda Corbie novel, City of Ghosts Kelli’s Noir cred goes beyond San Francisco of 1940, her other series, which features Arcturus, a physician of Roman Britain, began with Nox Dormienda, a nod to Raymond Chandler.
Episode 58: Otto Penzler
According to Otto Penzler, the dean of the mystery fiction genre, a short story anthology is like going to a party: you’ll see some familiar names and have the opportunity to meet new ones
