I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Westmoreland. He is a talented up-and-coming noir author. His debut book, A Violent Gospel, is available now from Shotgun Honey Books. About A Violent Gospel, the author writes: “The book is about two brothers, Mack and Marshall Dooley, who steal money from a snake-handling Pentecostal cult…
Tori Eldridge is the author of The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, and The Ninja Betrayed (a 9/14/2021 release from Polis Books, $16.95). Tori’s been nominated for the Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity awards. She was also a film and stage performer. Tori was kind enough to speak with me about her work. Q: Hello…
Q: Your new novel, Rock Paper Scissors, follows Adam and Amelia, who win a weekend away to the snowy Scottish Highlands and figure it might just be the make-or-break trip their marriage needs. But they soon discover that their winning the trip wasn’t random after all, and one of them might not be going home……
Hello crime-fiction readers. Recently, I did an email-based Q & A with Megan Collins. Ms. Collins is the author of The Family Plot—an August release through Atria Books. The Family Plot is already generating great buzz. Andrea Bartz says the work is “Dark, claustrophobic, and beautifully written with Collins’s signature musical prose.” As a reader,…
Congratulations on the publication of Last Flight to Stalingrad, the 5th book in your Spoils of War (Wars Within) series from Head of Zeus. What can readers expect from this installment in the series? Graham Hurley: This is a book about the lies, big and small, that created and sustained the Third Reich. It explores…
I recently had the good fortune to do a short question and answer with Chris Offutt. Chris is a widely accomplished author across numerous formats—TV, comics, memoir, and fiction. He is a highly-skilled writer, and someone I personally look up to. As a fan, I was delighted to speak with him. His new novel The…
Congratulations on an amazing second novel! The Maidens contains some of the key elements that continue to draw readers to The Silent Patient — Greek mythology, therapy, and a psychologist at the center of a murder mystery. What drew you back to these themes while writing The Maidens? When I first decided to write The Silent…
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger is quickly becoming as prolific as her body of work is prodigious. Having sold many millions of books worldwide in twenty-six languages, she notched yet another hit with last fall’s Confessions on the 7:45—now a 2021 ITW Thriller Award Nominee for Best Hardcover Novel as well as a…
I recently did an email-based Q&A with Craig Terlson, author of Surf City Acid Drop, the forthcoming Manistique, and numerous other works. Craig is an immensely talented writer. His next crime novel, Manistique, is coming out in early Summer 2021. Tell us about your writing history: Becoming a serious writer was always in the back…
What led you to self-publish your thriller in 2009 and include a “Reward” notice in the front of the book? Did you really think the reward tactic would help you get a traditional publishing/movie deal? D. Eric Maikranz: I didn’t know if it would work when I did it, but I did know that readers…
