The Silence that Speaks   I don’t particularly like it when I am referred to as a crime writer or a mystery writer. Those words…

Writing Suspense in the style of Alfred Hitchcock by Tony Lee Moral   -How are you inspired by Alfred Hitchcock when writing? Alfred Hitchcock had…

Creating Epic and Accurate Historical Fiction: Lessons Learned from The English Patient and WWII’s Operation Condor By Samuel Marquis In Lions of the Desert: A…

SCOTT TUROW RECEIVES THE 2019 PARETSKY AWARD The Annual Award Honors Mysteries Set in the Midwest   Chicago, IL – 3/26/2019 – The Paretsky Award, an annual…

  “The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell” by Robert Dugoni (Lake Union Publishing; April 24, 2018): Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes….

“The Witch Elm” by Tana French (Penguin Publishing Group; October 9, 2018): Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is…

“Head Wounds” by Dennis Palumbo (Poisoned Pen Press; February 6, 2018): Psychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims…

“The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century” by Kirk W. Johnson (Penguin Publishing Group; April 24, 2018): On a…

“Sawkill Girls” by Claire Legrand (Katherine Tegen Books; October 2, 2018): Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable….

“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris (Harper Paperbacks; September 4, 2018): In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the…