PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE WITH Lily Charles
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the writing duo known as Lily Charles. Libby Ware and Charlene Ball use[…]
Read moreA Blog for Readers and Writers of Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the writing duo known as Lily Charles. Libby Ware and Charlene Ball use[…]
Read moreI belong to two book clubs. One, I started during the pandemic, it’s very informal, and we meet once every[…]
Read moreSomewhere along the way during the thirteen years between starting to write fiction and publishing my first novel, I learned[…]
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Read moreLast year, the ten winners of the prestigious Emirate Literary Fellowship came to Gotham Writers in NYC, where I work.[…]
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Read more“Sexual repression, dark alleys, great detectives, ornate prose,” says author James McCreet (“Why we all love a Victorian Murder,” The Guardian, 15 May 2011). “No wonder the 19th century is our template for crime fiction. A murder is somehow more quintessentially English when committed on the cobbles of a foggy East End alley. If there’s a silhouetted top hat, a rustle of crinoline and a scream cut short with straight razor, all the better.”
I couldn’t agree more. Here are my Top Ten Reasons why Victorian England is the perfect setting for murder:
For a Happy New Years gift, the wonderful and prolific Martin Edwards, crime novelist, savior of vintage crime, and one[…]
Read moreLast year was spectacular for crime fiction conventions. Left Coast Crime in Tuscon, Arizona, was like living in a dream state.
Read moreWe’re writers and readers so of course we love words. Maybe too much sometimes? I remember a New Yorker cartoon[…]
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