It’s not just the murder of a Hasidic woman in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood that newbie journo Rebekah Roberts is on the trail of in Invisible City, Julia Dahl’s Edgar Award–nominated debut mystery
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The course of Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s life never did run smooth. With his daughter April in grave condition in a Billings, Montana hospital and his best friend Nate Romanowski missing, Joe has a full plate in C.J. Box’s latest, Endangered
And then there’s also the 21 dead sage grouse…
Find out more about Joe Pickett and C.J. Box’s next novel Badlands, which continues the story of The Highways’ Cassie Dewell, at his website.
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Where All Light Tends to Go, David Joy’s debut novel, explores an Appalachian Noir realm where fate and hope collide
Is there a choice between the worlds of drugs and murder or love and redemption for Jacob McNeely?
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The author of the Eve Diamond series of mysteries, editor of volumes one and two of Los Angeles Noir anthologies of short stories whose settings are in Southern California and contributor to In the Company of Sherlock Holmes anthology of short stories talks about mysteries, the dark side of sunny SoCal beaches and perfume
Articles for LA, The Los Angeles Times Magazine written by Denise Hamilton
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Uncommon Scents: The Perfume Column by Denise Hamilton
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The next few weeks are an embarrassment of riches for lovers of fiction in general and crime fiction in particular.
February 23, 2015 we chat with Denise Hamilton about her short story in In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, editing both volumes of Los Angeles Noir and perfume.
March 2, 2015 David Joy talks about Where All Light Tends to Go, his much-anticipated debut novel.
March 9, 2015 C.J. Box discusses Endangered, his latest Joe Pickett novel. Trust us, Joe’s life, which is never easy or smooth, gets especially rocky in this installment of the series.
March 10, 2015 On the publication day of the paper back of Invisible City, Julia Dahl‘s Edgar Award-nominated first novel, we chat with her about her protagonist, newbie journo Rebekah Roberts, and what awaits her in the followup novel, Run You Down.
March 16, 2015 Owen Laukkanen joins the podcast to discuss The Stolen Ones, the fourth installment in his Stevens and Windermere series.
In Dead Is Better, murder victim Charlie Stone’s confusion is mitigated by Rose, his new-found afterlife canine companion
Dead Is Better is available in e-book and in print.
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In My Sunshine Away, M.O. Walsh’s debut novel, the story revolves around what happens in the aftermath of a brutal crime rather than the search for a solution
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Click on thumbnail above to see the schedule for M.O. Walsh’s appearances.
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Before He Finds Her features the well-cultivated “creep factor” that every psychological suspense novel needs
Ramsey Miller’s plan to have a block party for the end of the world sounded like a good one, at least to him. Until his wife and—at least everyone thought—his daughter were murdered. Except his daughter survived and has been in hiding until the day she felt compelled to begin the journey to the truth.
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Justice, poetic and otherwise, is one of the things being sought in The Carrier, the most recent addition to Sophie Hannah’s Zailer and Waterhouse series of crime novels
Sophie Hannah, a self-described “structure freak,” talks about the common ground shared by poetry and crime fiction, an event that happened to her that inspired part of the story and whether or not there will be another Poirot novel.
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What could possibly go wrong when Raf—who happens to suffer from a circadian rhythm disorder—the world of pirate radio and the drug-infused world of dance raves in South London find themselves caught in the crossfire between an unscrupulous mining company and a cadre of Burmese revolutionaries? In Glow, lots.
Ned thoughtfully provided an FAQ to answer such questions as “how did you get the idea for the book,” “why did you decide on writing a thriller after ‘willfully confounding postmodern black comedies’” and “why did you decide to set Glow in the modern day?” You can find the answers to those three questions, as well as others, at Ned Beauman’s blog. As well as a Spotify playlist of “semi-recent music that helped to inspire [Glow].”
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