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Left Coast Crime Lefty Award Winners
Oline Cogdill
For years, I wanted to attend Left Coast Crime (LCC) having heard such good feedback about the conference. The various western locations also interested me.
But the timing was never right as it always seemed I had previous commitments in the March/April time frame.
But 2020 was different.
Oh, so different as we were about to find out.
For the first time, the timing worked for me and, as an extra bonus, one of my dearest and closet friends lived in San Diego.
Tony and I had big plans we would spend the day before the conference and, after LCC ended, we would either stay in San Diego, a city I love, or spend time in Los Angeles.
By Katrina Niidas Holm |
In Afia’s debut,
Dead Dead Girls (Berkley Prime Crime, June.), Louise Lloyd, a Black former showgirl, reluctantly helps police hunt a serial killer in 1920s Harlem.
What inspired this book?
I wrote it for National Novel Writing Month in 2016. I had just finished writing a romance, and I wanted to challenge myself, so I decided to write a mystery. I was watching a lot of Prohibition era–set TV, and I was also studying that period in my history class, so I was like, “I love this era! I’m going to write a Prohibition-era mystery!”
LEFT COAST CRIME ANNOUNCES LEFTY AWARD WINNERS
Oline Cogdill
For years, I wanted to attend Left Coast Crime (LCC) having heard such good feedback about the conference. The various western locations also interested me.
But the timing was never right as it always seemed I had previous commitments in the March/April time frame.
But 2020 was different.
Oh, so different as we were about to find out.
For the first time, the timing worked for me and, as an extra bonus, one of my dearest and closet friends lived in San Diego.
Tony and I had big plans we would spend the day before the conference and, after LCC ended, we would either stay in San Diego, a city I love, or spend time in Los Angeles.