Looking for a new publisher!
The fourth Baker Somerset book - Found and Lost - is finished! (Meaning the editor has finished creating rewrites for me) Somerset is looking for a new home! Hopefully, we will have good news soon.
Loving the Bad Guy in Film and Fiction
For me there’s almost nothing as good as a good heist/theft/con flick. Five Ocean movies (one with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, three with George Clooney, and one all-female cast), two Italian Job films, two Thomas Crown movies, and the Sean Connery/Catherine Zeta-Jones film Entrapment prove that we love to cheer for the bad guy especially when he (or she) is the underdog. If you don’t mind sub-titles there’s also the fabulous film Nine Queens in Spanish. It’s a con movie that I’d
The History of Forensics
The burst of interest in forensics, for most people, happened with the O. J. Simpson trial. Millions of people, both in the U.S. and around the world spent nine months glued to their television sets and argued in pubs about the evidence being put forth and whether or not it was reliable. Following the Simpson case, television series began to feature forensics and both CSI and NCIS have had long running series as watchers became enamored with the details that helped detectives capture criminals. I
Miss Scarlet in the library with the candlestick…or was it the revolver…or the wrench…or the…
Warning: This article contains “spoilers.” One of the most difficult things a mystery writer needs to do is to find a unique way for her, or his, victim to die. Let’s face it. Gunshot, stabbing, poison…it’s all been done. If you take a poll and ask mystery fans what the most unique way the victim met their end, chances are everyone will say. “The leg of lamb thing.” They may not remember that it occurred in the story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” (1954) or that
Libraries Are Great!
In One Bad Day After Another, Baker Somerset uses the library for her research. Writers love libraries too. The New England Library Association (NELA) is having its annual conference this October in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Doubletree Inn. If you are attending, stop by the Sisters in Crime booth. (#111 in the Vendor's Hall) I'll be there on October 24th (Monday) from 12:15 to 2:15. I'd love to talk with you and you can check out the cover for the new Baker Somerset novel.