The Crime Lady: Farewell To a Dear Friend
Dear TCL Readers: I’d meant my first newsletter of 2022 to be about other things. And in time, it will. But for now, all my thoughts are about yesterday’s...
The Crime Lady: My Year in Crime
Dear TCL Readers: Once again, it’s been a while. 2021 has been like that, moving agonizingly slow and blindingly fast, sometimes at the same time. The year...
The Crime Lady: Introducing SCOUNDREL, My Next Book
Dear TCL Readers: Hi, it’s been a while. So much has happened in the world, in your own lives, and in mine. I write this newsletter from my childhood home,...
The Crime Lady: Give a Dose To the One You Love Most
Dear TCL Readers: I got my first dose last Friday at the racetrack. I don’t gamble and even if I did I wouldn’t bet on horses and so I’d never visited the...
The Crime Lady: Long Overdue, and Some News
Dear TCL Readers: Hi, it’s been a while. January was…well, it seemed like every time I thought about writing a newsletter, there would be an insurrection or...
The Crime Lady: The Year That Wasn't, The Year That Will Be
Dear TCL Readers, A year ago we had hardly an inkling of the virus known as SARS-CoV-2, and this week the first Americans are being vaccinated. A year ago we...
The Crime Lady: Linda Millar; Party For One Thanksgiving Reading; and More
Dear TCL Readers: For years I have wondered about Linda Millar, daughter of the crime writers Ross Macdonald and Margaret Millar. I have wondered about what...
The Crime Lady: Return to MacDowell
Dear TCL Readers:It’s crunch time for, well everything. For me, that is book revisions. I am working on them at something of a feverish clip at MacDowell,...
The Crime Lady: Pulp Dangers
Dear TCL Subscribers:When I was working on The Real Lolita, one of the many research rabbit holes centered around an ex-con named Russell Trainer, who began...
The Crime Lady: Best American Mystery & Suspense Stories Gets Its New Editor
Dear TCL Readers, It has been a while! And much has transpired. Unspeakable Acts published to considerable critical acclaim (and healthy sales, too.) The...
The Crime Lady: In Celebration, In Memory
Dear TCL Readers: Last week brought a bounty of good news in these parts. Unspeakable Acts rolled out with far more fanfare that I was expecting, including a...
The Crime Lady: UNSPEAKABLE ACTS: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession Publishes Today
Dear TCL Readers:Today, July 28, is publication day for Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession, an anthology of features and...
The Crime Lady: Anthology Events, Reckonings, and More
Dear TCL Readers, Unspeakable Acts publishes in just about a month. And in this strange ongoing pandemic-inflected world, publicity and promotion looks...
The Crime Lady: Shirley, You Jest
Dear TCL Subscribers:I did not expect to like Shirley, Josephine Decker’s newest film. I had very much disliked its source material (Susan Scarf Merrell’s...
The Crime Lady: Escape Hatch
Dear TCL Readers,Unspeakable Acts publishes in a little over two months and all of the prepublication trade reviews are now in — with Publishers Weekly...
The Crime Lady: More Cases That Haunt
Dear TCL Readers:Last year, one of my favorite crime writers, William Boyle, reached out to ask me to contribute to a project he was guest-editing for a film...
The Crime Lady: Troubled Waters
Dear TCL Readers,Over the weekend, The Cut published my latest feature, on the brief life and tragic death of a young woman who, like so many young women...
The Crime Lady: A Plague for Passover
Dear TCL Readers,These last three weeks — or centuries, who even counts time anymore — have seen unthinkable changes to the way we live, love, work, and...
The Crime Lady: Gone Viral
Dear TCL Readers,I wish I had more comforting words for all of you. We are in uncharted territory. Social distancing is the new normal. So is working from...
The Crime Lady: Pushing Forward
Dear TCL Readers, I turned forty-one last week and spent the day with people I love. I had, in half-jest, posted on Twitter that what I most wanted for the...
