If you’ve run through your supply of mysteries featuring smart, competent women private eyes, here are a few more for you to try. It includes two lawyer-sleuths. I’ve never really considered such hybrids private eyes since they have another income source, but Private Eye Writers of America accepts them as P.I.’s, so it’s hard to […]
Continue readingIn the years just before World War II and through the anxious years until it ended, the writings of three women influenced American politics and social issues, were quoted for their razor-sharp wit, and kept mystery lovers up reading past their bedtime. They were all named Dorothy. “The first thing I do in the morning […]
Continue readingWhen M. Louisa Locke and I discovered we’d be promoting books in our respective historical mystery series at the same time, we had an idea: Wouldn’t it be fun to ask our two women detectives — one a proper lady in Victorian San Francisco, the other a gritty young private eye in 1940s Dayton, Ohio […]
Continue readingThis week is a busy one for 1940s private eye Maggie Sullivan. First, read her answers in Part I of an interview today on M. Louisa Locke’s blog where we jointly interview our two characters. Part II will appear here tomorrow (Jan. 21). Then learn more about Maggie Sullivan and the series in this […]
Continue readingGrant McKenzie leads a double life, as a thriller writer under his own name and as author of the Dixie Flynn mysteries under the name M.C. Grant. The latter series features a young investigative journalist for an online news site who’s as tough as she is rumpled. Beauty With a Bomb, the third book in […]
Continue readingThe Shamus Awards dinner, hosted by Private Eye Writers of America, is my favorite part of the annual Bouchercon world mystery convention. All those authors of P.I. fiction, from the big names to a sprinkling of newbies, crowded into one room. They’re not quite as seedy as their print creations, but they do have a […]
Continue readingCome on over to my Facebook page for a chance to win BOOKS, CHOCOLATES, and CD’s of traditional Irish music. We’re celebrating the launch of Shamus in a Skirt, fourth book in the Maggie Sullivan series. It’s now available from most ebook retailers. Besides periodic prize drawings, there also are assorted videos of Irish music […]
Continue readingIt’s a strange experience hearing a perfect stranger give a voice to the P.I. you’ve created. I’m smack in the middle of that experience as I listen to tracks of the audiobook of No Game for a Dame, which is now in production. It’s the first book in my Maggie Sullivan mysteries series, so it […]
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