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Where It Hurts — behind Reed Farrel Coleman’s latest

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Reed Farrel Coleman is no stranger to good writing. His award nominations and winnings read like an alphabet soup including Anthony, Audie, Barry, Edgar, and Macavity. He was tapped by the late Robert B. Parker’s estate to continue the Jesse Stone novels and balances that with his own series. He’s currently launching the Gus Murphy […]

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The Miser’s Dream author talks magic and mystery

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John Gaspard’s new mystery, “The Miser’s Dream,” has put him in the mood to talk magic. For instance, he describes himself as a director—“of eight low-budget features that cost very little and made even less—and that’s no small trick.” In fact, even the reviewers got in on the act. For instance, one said, “It’s full […]

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Greenfellas — Robert Lopresti says it has issues

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Robert Lopresti spent his first three decades in New Jersey. Lopresti is the author of more than fifty mystery short stories, which have been published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine,  Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Strand, and numerous anthologies. Lopresti hadn’t written a full-length novel in more than a decade when a hurricane and environmental […]

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Story behind Hester Young’s The Gates of Evangeline

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Hester Young began writing in the first grade. According to her bio, she covered topics as diverse as elephant death, divorce, selective mutism, and killer bells. In high school, she wrote a soap opera in which her friends had passionate affairs with Hollywood heartthrobs. Young has come a long way from those early days as […]

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Judy Penz Sheluk believes authenticity matters

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Judy Penz Sheluk’s debut novel, “The Hanged Man’s Noose,” is the story of Emily Garland, a freelance writer/journalist, and her friend, Arabella Carpenter, the owner of the Glass Dolphin, an antiques shop in the small, historic town of Lount’s Landing. According to Penz Sheluk, “Arabella’s motto is ‘Authenticity Matters.’ That philosophy is the underlying message […]

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Back to the 60s with mystery writer Kay Kendall

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The 60s were a time of turmoil, filled with such diverse events as the Vietnam War and Woodstock. Among the baby boomers to grow up during the era was Kay Kendall, author of “Rainy Day Women.” If the title sounds familiar, it’s because it comes from a Bob Dylan song. Kay Kendall said all three […]

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Behind the story of John Mullen’s Digital Dick

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In the mystery genre, books involving a computer as the protagonist are few and far between. A computer with artificial intelligence is even rare, but that’s exactly what debut author John Mullen has created in “Digital Dick.” Mullen said he never intended to write about a serious issue, but as he wrote his first published […]

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Ace Atkins — behind the story of The Redeemers

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New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins began his career as a writer by working for a newspaper. His journalism background taught him many lessons about writing, but also gave him insight into people, which he now uses when he writes the Quinn Colson series and Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. For those unfamiliar with […]

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Sujata Massey talks about The Kizuna Coast

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Agatha and Macavity Award winner Sujata Massey’s latest novel is “The Kizuna Coast.”  In this interview, the author of the Rei Shimura mysteries discussed “The Kizuna Coast” and how a natural disaster influenced the book. “Writing The Kizuna Coast was a way to recognize a significant change in the real world and my fictional environment,” […]

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Lori Rader-Day discusses Little Pretty Things

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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, […]

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