Describe the first time you pictured Lucy Kincaid in your head? Lucy was a very minor character in one of my earliest books, the much younger sister of my heroine. She literally breezed into the kitchen and breezed out, a carefree teenager. I pictured her as a smart, fun-loving teenager. The next time I met…

It’s personal in the thirteenth Jake Lassiter thriller: Miami-based lawyer Jake defends his nephew Kip, who is “charged with multiple federal crimes.” Kip has been working for millionaire Max Ringle, who concocted a “shady scheme to help rich, entitled kids gain admission to elite universities.” When the jig is up, Ringle “cops a plea” and…

Join Thomas Pluck for a chat with Don Winslow as they discuss his latest book, Broken, and then continue reading for a full review! Don Winslow is the bestselling author of the blockbuster epic Cartel trilogy, the NYPD cop saga The Force, the thriller Savages which was made into a movie directed by Oliver Stone, the…

Who Speaks for the Damned by C. S. Harris is the 15th Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, where the viscount investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder. While London is in the midst of a gala for the Allied Sovereigns’ celebration commemorating the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sebastian St. Cyr,…

Has it really been seven years since the publication of Through the Evil Days? Be assured, fans of The Reverend Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries: lingering questions and cliffhangers are answered in the ninth book. The biggest change since Russ and Clare’s marriage is the arrival of baby Ethan. Clare, a juggler at…

Describe the first time you pictured Kate McGuire in your head. In my mind (and my very first, toss-away draft), I showed a bit of Kate’s life in Manhattan—including that one momentous day when the restaurant where she’d worked for two years shuttered (embezzlement), she lost her tiny, homey apartment (gone condo), and she broke off…

Balancing the demands of law-enforcement with family isn’t always easy, especially if you’re a single parent. Fortunately, as a former detective for Santa Fe PD and now the newly elected sheriff of Del Sol, New Mexico, I can offer a few dos and don’ts—mostly don’ts—to help you harmonize the two loves of your life. My…

You are most well-known for your bestselling holiday fiction writings such as The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Town, but what inspired you to move in a different direction and blend fiction with biblical prophecy for The Time of Jacob’s Trouble? People are wondering, “What in the world is going on?” I heard a poll…

Would you like to live in the setting you created for the Casey Duncan novels?  Temporarily, yes. Permanently…probably not. Rockton is off-the-grid in every way. A tiny hidden town deep in the Yukon forest. No electricity, no internet, no contact with the outside world. It would be an adventure, but I suspect the isolation would…

Describe the first time you pictured Joanna in your mind. It occurred while I was reading Sherlock Holmes’s description of Irene Adler in Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia. As you may recall, she was threatening to release very compromising photographs of her and the King of Bohemia unless he ended his engagement to the…