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I belong to two book clubs. One, I started during the pandemic, it’s very informal, and we meet once every[…]
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I 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[…]
Read moreFor the past year and change I’ve worked on a new novel. I loved the story. I loved writing it.[…]
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