Kate Flora: When I embarked on my crime writing journey back around 1983, I naively thought that what a writer did was sit at her desk and make things up. It didn't take long for the crime writing (and reading) community to set me straight. In our world, we are writing for a sophisticated audience. Our…
Kate Flora: Sometimes, between books, between spurts of research, or after readingabout yet another awful shooting, I think about the difference between the world of today, where guns are rampant and used so carelessly and violently, and the world I grew up in, where guns were part of the culture but it was a culture…
In Partnership with Kensington Books By Mary Feliz, author of Cliff Hanger: A Maggie McDonald Mystery Whether you’re kicking back in the shade with a book and a frosty class of iced tea or waiting out a heat wave by enjoying the A/C, there are times when only a dog book will do. Luckily, there are a myriad of authors who love canines as much as we all do.