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...
The Crime Lady: Publicity Machinery
Dear TCL Readers, My custom is to stop wishing people a Happy New Year after MLK Weekend, but in truth, we could use all of the extra happiness in 2020. What...
The Crime Lady: This Is The Year That Was
Dear TCL Readers, So we come to the near-end of another year, another decade. We survived! Kind of! I’m contending with split instincts for 2020: to...
The Crime Lady: A New Anthology, Awards, Bouchercon, and More
Dear TCL Readers: If I thought life would slow down after moving — no, I didn’t actually think that, because I knew it would not! But the last few weeks of...
The Crime Lady: On the Move
Dear TCL Readers: I’m sending this newsletter just before the movers are coming, set to transport my furniture, my books — my life, really — from Brooklyn to...
The Crime Lady: THE REAL LOLITA, Now In Paperback
Dear TCL Readers,Today is paperback publication day! The Real Lolita is now available in the US in paperback, with a new subtitle — A Lost Girl, An...
The Crime Lady: A Late Summer Update
Dear TCL Readers, The mood is grim, the news is awful, and it’s necessary to take breaks. So perhaps it is strange to write this newsletter in a state of...
The Trial That Shadowed Mordecai Richler
One of my projects over the past year has been reading through as much of the work by Canadian writer Mordecai Richler as I’m able to find. So far, that...
The Crime Lady: THE REAL LOLITA Around the World; Edna Buchanan's Miami; and More
Dear TCL Readers, I’ve spent the last few weeks working very hard on my new book in a variety of locales, whether sweltering in my Brooklyn apartment or in...
The Crime Lady: The Central Park Narrative
Dear TCL Readers:Last November, around the time when the Mystery Writers of America awarded, and then rescinded, its Grand Master designation to Linda...
The Crime Lady: Arthur Ellis Awards, Concerts, and More
Dear TCL Readers, May proved to be…quite something, much of it good. So much so that I’m splitting the news into two dispatches: this one with awards and...
Me & Shel: An Unfinished Obsession
May 10 was the 20th anniversary of Shel Silverstein’s death, which happened a few short months after my own obsession with his work and life began. At...
The Crime Lady V2, #11: Crime Reading
Dear TCL Readers: May in New York is my favorite time of year. The foliage is full, the city feels more awake and alive, and my natural inclination to walk...
The Crime Lady V2, #10: Lethal Decisions
Dear TCL Readers:March was positively lion-like over here, at least in terms of my workload. Somehow I traveled at a similar pace to last fall, doing events...
