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June 27, 2017
‘UNSUB’ A Conversation with Meg Gardiner
Meg Gardiner is the author of 12 critically acclaimed crime novels, including China Lake, which won the Edgar Award. Her best-known books are the Evan Delaney novels. Her latest novel is a taut and terrifying thriller, UNSUB.
UNSUB features Caitlin Hendrix, a detective, whose childhood nightmare reemerges: a serial killer known as the Prophet. He’s an UNSUB—an unknown subject—who again begins terrorizing the Bay Area after a hiatus of 20 years. This series of ritualized murders virtually dest...
June 20, 2017
‘The Force,’ A Conversation with Don Winslow
Known to millions of fans, Don Winslow is an author of crime and suspense novels, including a series of five novels featuring private investigator Neal Carey as the protagonist. His highly acclaimed standalone novels include Savages, The Winter of Frankie Machin
e, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, The Power of the Dog, and The Cartel.
The Force, his latest novel, features Detective Denny Malone, a NYPD sergeant who’s head of Manhattan North’s task force for narcotics, dubbed “Da Force.” For 18 y...
June 19, 2017
‘The Marsh King’s Daughter,” A Conversation with Karen Dionne
Karen Dionne is a member of the International Thriller Writers, where she has served on the board of directors. She has been honored by the Michigan Humanities Council as a Humanities Scholar.
The Marsh King’s Daughter features Helena Pelletier who has a loving husband and two young daughters. The family lives on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Helena has a dark secret: she’s the product of an abduction. Her mother was abducted as a teenager, and Helen is a result of that event. She and her mothe...
June 17, 2017
‘Dying Breath,’ A Conversation with Heather Graham
Heather Graham is an internationally renowned author of more than 150 novels and novellas, published in 25 languages, with o
ver 75 million copies in print. She has been honored with nearly every award available to contemporary writers, including the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Thriller Writers’ Silver Bullet. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America.
Her latest novel, Dying Breath, features Vickie Preston, wh...
June 13, 2017
‘The Switch,’ A Conversation with Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder is the bestselling author of thirteen previous novels, including The Fixer and Suspicion. Two bestsellers, Paranoia and High Crimes, became major motion pictures. His awards include The Barry, Gumshoe, and The International Thriller Writers Award. His new novel is The Switch.
The Switch focuses on Michael Tanner, an ordinary guy whose marriage and business career are in trouble. Coming home to Boston from a business trip, he accidentally picks up the wrong Mac Book laptop after...
June 6, 2017
A Good Story is Disturbing
As David Mamet once said to me, “If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad asks him how school was, and Hamlet says, ‘It was fine, Dad,’ it’s boring.”
Whether you’re writing a literary novel, a psychological, medical, legal or spy thriller, or even a cozy mystery, for a novel to be engaging, it must center on human conflict and disturbance.
Without chaos, there’s very little story to tell.
If you think you’ve got a story worth telling, before you start to write, reflect upon what you’ve e...
May 16, 2017
‘Exit Strategy,’ A Talk with Steve Hamilton
Steve Hamilton has either won or been nominated for virtually every major crime fiction award, including the Edgar, Dagger, Shamus, Anthony, Barry, and Gumshoe, among others. His Alex McKnight series involves ten bestselling and highly acclaimed books. His standalones include Night Work, and The Lock Artist which won the Edgar and Barry Awards for best novel of 2011.
The Second Life of Nick Mason was Steve’s first entry in a new series. Nick Mason is an ex-con, trying to break away from his...
May 12, 2017
Book Review of “Beyond Bedlam’s Door”
Posted by: Tim Gebhart 19 hours ago in Book Reviews, Books, Memoir, Non-Fiction 0 Comments
Case studies are a longstanding teaching and continuing education vehicle. In the last two decades, they’ve emerged from the halls of medical, business and other schools to bookstore popular nonfiction sections and best selling lists. The popularity of books by neurologist 
Oliver Sacks contributed to an avalanche...
May 11, 2017
‘Am I Being Too Subtle?’ A Talk with Sam Zell
Sam Zell, a self-made billionaire and chairman of Equity Group Investments, started out with a larger than life personality, an ability to see what others did not, and a willingness to take prudent risks. “If everyone is going left, look right,” is one of his compelling beliefs, and he acts decisively on his intellect and instincts. Over the years, he’s sponsored nearly a dozen IPOs and has created thousands of jobs. He’s active in a diverse group of industries, including real estate, manufac...
May 4, 2017
‘Little White Lies,’ A Conversation with Ace Atkins
Ace Atkins is the bestselling author of 21 novels, including The Fallen and now, Little White Lies. Ace has been nominated for every major award in crime fiction, including the Edgar Award. A former newspaper reporter and football player at Auburn, Ace also writes essays and investigative pieces for several national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Garden & Gun, and Men’s Journal.
Little White Lies picks up on Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels for which Ace was selected as the...
