Just as you can tell a lot about a person from their books, you can tell a lot about a person from their noir preferences. These are seven favorites from my shelf that show what kind of reader I am, and what I was inspired by while writing my novel, Repentance. The Latin American…
Everyone tends to read about the familiar; I’m never as contented as when I am curled up with an English country-house murder mystery, for example. But, challenging yourself to trying something new could open up—literally—a whole new world. Just think about the places you could travel via mystery! From the remote stretches of the Arctic…
A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Piñeiro is a contemporary mystery from Argentina (available August 6, 2013). Pablo Simó and two colleagues at the architecture firm where he works know precisely what happened to Nelson Jara. That happens to be information they swore to keep to themselves, however, and they’ve kept their vow for…
