Melissa Westemeier

Aaron Philip Clark creates a dark world for his PI Trevor Finnegan to solve crime and describes how he wrote this bulk of his latest book, The Bluest Night, over 3 days at an artist’s retreat in Ojai. Drawing from his past as a screenwriter and a LAPD recruit, this SoCal native brings amazing authenticity and detail to the page. We discuss the threats that lurk inside gated communities, strange people, and magnificent sunsets that create the backdrop for the Trevor Finnegan s

Janice Hallett masterfully creates a world using text threads, pub quiz results, and emails in her newest book, A Killer Question . I’m a...

M.J. Robotham cut her teeth writing WWII historical fiction, but her newest release, Mrs. S py, drops readers into the exciting, vibrant...

Brandy Schillace spotlights neurodivergence, identity, found families, and murder, of course, in ep. 6 of My Bookcase Slays. Brandy...

Readers, I'm pleased as punch to introduce you to one of the women featured on the panel I'm moderating next week at Malice Domestic --...

It's been a week since Old Habits Die Hard came out, launching the Nun the Wiser Mysteries, and I'm beside myself with joy because...

OLD HABITS DIE HARD It feels like Christmas morning--all the anticipation bubbling for weeks, even months--and it's finally here! You can...

In writing news, I took a 2 month hiatus from writing murder mysteries to work on a different project. I completed 75,000 words in this...