Windhall (Pegasus Crime, Mar.), an unsolved 1948 murder obsesses L.A. journalist Max Hailey decades later.
You’ve lived in Australia for several years. Was it a challenge to write about Hollywood, both old and contemporary, from such a distance?
I’m actually a native Californian who lived in Los Angeles for three years after college in Santa Cruz. On my days off I would drive around and visit all these famous sites: the Witch House in Beverly Hills, filming locations for
Chinatown, Westwood Memorial Park where Marilyn Monroe’s crypt is. I’m obsessed with both present-day Los Angeles and the city’s rich history.