GUEST POST: Clea Simon and HOLD ME DOWN

It's my pleasure to welcome Clea Simon this week, as my guest. Although we enjoyed a lovely lunch together at Bouchercon, Dallas, in 2019, this photo was taken (at the bar - no surprises there!) at Bouchercon, St. Petersburg, in 2018.
As some wag famously said, “Writing about music is like bicycling about architecture.”   What that wit didn’t say is that it’s also a great opportunity for crime fiction.

The rock and roll subculture of the ‘80s and ‘90s, a world that I came up in as a critic and so...