detective | detective
Jun.02.2010
He's tall and drop-dead gorgeous, with sandy hair and dark brown eyes. He's a meticulous dresser with an upper crust accent. He drives an indecently expensive car, and yet he tries to pretend that he's not the 13th Earl of something-or-other and seldom visits the family pile of rocks in Cornwall....
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Jun.02.2010
Okay, I confess that I've never been able to confine myself to one guy. So why would I choose ONE detective, when there are so many smart, sexy, hip detectives out there?
Take John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, for instance. (I would!) Not Luke. He'd deck anybody who called him Luke. No matter how...
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Jun.02.2010
I think every writer who's ever tried to write a detective novel has a favorite they've modeled their protagonist on, and I have several who went into the making of Henry Swann who, technically speaking, is not a detective but a skiptracer who reluctantly becomes a detective in the pursuit of, what...
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Jun.02.2010
"What the detective story is about is not murder, but the restoration of order."
P.D. James said that. Her astute observation resonates through the works of two authors of detective stories that have much in common, but whose protagonists couldn't be more different.
Both authors offer...
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Jun.02.2010
I know I'm probably blaspheming by talking about a TV show when I should be showing off how literate I am by mentioning some brilliant literary detective hero. The truth is, so far, I haven't been drawn to the detective literary genre. Maybe someone can change my mind with some suggestions. In the...
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May.25.2010
It's official:
SO DARK THE NIGHT is now for sale, available from Amazon.com and various other affiliates. Or, if you'd prefer a signed copy, just pop over to my main blog at WordPress and you'll find all the ordering information there.
Kids, I don't want to brag, but if you're looking for summer...
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Feb.08.2010
With great difficulty or considerable ease is the answer. Some titles can come instantly, almost the moment the novel hits the page (or rather the computer screen) Dead Man's Wharf was one such case. Others are like pregnancy, taking months to develop and even then when the novel is finished I...
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Feb.01.2010
When Ventura Star Free Press reporter, Kim Gregory, settled into a chair across the kitchen table for an interview about my odd-couple, 13 year ride-along with Jigsaw John, I was ready.
There were photos spead from one end of my oak table to the other. There was a stack of notes, Shari Milller's...
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Dec.22.2009
As 2009 draws to a close I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to my success as a crime writer, not least the wonderful people who have bought my crime novels, or borrowed them from the libraries, and those who have been kind enough to tell me how much they...
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Aug.23.2009
Black Hat Magick
A detective story for computer geeks. Follows college student, Elaine Mercer, who may perfer to keep to herself, but constantly finds herself in need of grant money and other monetary income to keep her surprisingly expensive projects going. To do so, she keeps a minor detective...
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