The Crime Lady: EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN Is Out Now
Dear TCL Readers: I will make this newsletter brief, because the news is in the headline. My latest anthology, Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era...
The Crime Lady: Events for Evidence of Things Seen, Recent Writing, and More
Dear TCL Readers, My next anthology, Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning, will be out on July 4, which is a little less than two weeks...
The Crime Lady: Dark Tales, Revisited
Dear TCL Readers: This newsletter is a little different. It republishes my June 12, 2011 article for The Daily, a long-defunct News Corp. publication that...
The Crime Lady: "Truth" in True Crime; Violinist Unsolved Mystery; and More
Dear TCL Readers: April is halfway over but it feels like it has encompassed a century. Perhaps it was Passover. Perhaps it was spending the Seders in my...
The Crime Lady: Essential Highsmith; NYRB Letters; and More
Dear TCL Readers: The last couple of months have been eventful professionally, to say the least. Let’s get right to it: Thanks for reading The Crime Lady!...
The Crime Lady: Contending With Capote
Dear TCL Readers, I hope your 2023 is starting well. Mine is, thank goodness, after a last-few-weeks-of-2022 best forgotten (a second bout of Covid is...
The Crime Lady: New Projects Ahead
Dear TCL Readers, Well, it’s certainly been a while. But I’m back in your inboxes after so long to tell you what I’ve been up to over the past six months,...
The Crime Lady: East Village Kidnappings; SCOUNDREL Updates; and More
Dear TCL Readers: It took longer than anticipated to send out this newsletter, but then, the publication of Scoundrel has kept me busy since the book’s...
The Crime Lady: SCOUNDREL Is Published Today
Dear TCL Readers: At long last, my newest book, Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and...
The Crime Lady: Events for SCOUNDREL, and More
Dear TCL Readers, 2022 is, shall we say, off to an eventful start. For me, I began the year in isolation, recovering from Omicron. It was technically a mild...
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...
