Lane Stone, Author at Miss Demeanors

“This couldn’t be set anywhere else.”

Have you said that about a mystery series or a TV show? Is that right? Sure, some series have ties[…]

Authors have different avenues for research depending on the topic. I write contemporary fiction, and my preference is to interview[…]

Last month I wrote to you about characters having music identities. This month I thought we’d look at the different ways[…]

Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. I thought we would pose[…]

Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series, spoke about his career and this protagonist in particular, at ThrillerFest earlier[…]

THRILLERFEST 2023 New York City, New York A neighbor recently asked me exactly what I did at these conferences I go to.[…]

WHAT COMES OVER SOME PEOPLE?In part one, we asked if art crime was different from other illegal activity. When there’s[…]

The Coronation… My next blog was supposed to be Part 2 of “Can an Object Make You Commit a Crime?”[…]

PART ONE OF TWO Usually criminologists study the criminal, but many of today’s scholars recommend an object-centric approach for understanding[…]

I recently served on a Grand Jury for Alexandria, Virginia. I’m not allowed to tell you about the actual cases, but[…]