Lori Rader-Day’s first mystery novel, “The Black Hour,” has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Mary Higgins Clark Award, a Macavity, an Anthony, and the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original. For this interview, Lori Rader-Day is talking about her second mystery, “Little Pretty Things,” and why she believes it’s the characters, not issues, that drive a … [Read more...] about Lori Rader-Day discusses Little Pretty Things
Award-winning Authors
Lessons learned with Maggie Toussaint
Maggie Toussaint (maggietoussaint.com) started out as a scientist and technical writer. By a quirk of fate, she discovered early on how people can ignore the obvious and take extraordinary steps to avoid involvement. Toussaint is a believer that justice should always be served and, for this interview, talked about karma, life’s defining moments, and her new release, “Bubba Done … [Read more...] about Lessons learned with Maggie Toussaint
Catriona McPherson – discusses Come to Harm
Catriona McPherson is the award-winning author of mysteries in multiple genres. She writes a 1920s detective series as well as standalone thrillers. One of the things that makes Catriona McPherson unusual is that she’s a Scottish writer who grew up on a diet that would send vegetarians running for the hills. For this interview with the current President of Sisters in Crime, … [Read more...] about Catriona McPherson – discusses Come to Harm
Larry D. Sweazy discusses book indexing and murder
Larry D. Sweazy has been a freelance indexer for seventeen years. For the uninitiated, an indexer is a person whose job is to find the relevant facts in a book and create the index. For this interview, Larry D. Sweazy described how his career led him to write a mystery featuring an amateur sleuth who indexes books for a living.“One of the ways that a new indexer educates … [Read more...] about Larry D. Sweazy discusses book indexing and murder
Susan Cummins Miller — whitewater rafting and Chasm
In the summer of 2011, Susan Cummins Miller took a whitewater raft trip through the Grand Canyon. From the rafting trip, sprang her thriller, “Chasm.” In this interview, geologist and author Miller describes how that trip affected her writing.“Retracing part of Major John Wesley Powell's explorations, especially with a group of convivial geoscientists, was a highpoint of my … [Read more...] about Susan Cummins Miller — whitewater rafting and Chasm