Ang Pompano: Dieting can be deadly…

Congratulations to Ang Pompano, whose new Diet of Death came out last month. This fun and fast-paced amateur sleuth is the first in the “Cooking with Betty” series. But readers might recognize a familiar face…  This isn’t your protagonist Quincy...

Dana Cameron’s summer shorts

Speaking of short stories, the wonderful Dana Cameron has an anthology out today – Pandora’s Orphans – that already sounds like pure summer pleasure, whether you’re at the beach or sitting around a campfire. While I first got to know Dana’s writing...

“The Basement,” a short story

Want a little dark crime fiction to kickstart your holiday weekend? Here’s my story “The Basement,” up now in Punk Noir Magazine (free). PUNK NOIR MAGAZINE The Only Crime Is Getting Caught SKIP TO CONTENT PUNK NOIR MAGAZINEABOUT PUNK NOIR MAGAZINE...

Caroline Leavitt’s WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

Finally, With or Without You is out in paperback! What happens when a young woman, desperate to appease the rock-star dreams of her partner, falls into a coma – and then wakes months later to find her world has changed? This twisty, turny psychologically complex novel...

BLOODROOT short story news!

Woot! Woot! I am thrilled to announce that I’ll have a story in the upcoming BLOODROOT: BEST NEW ENGLAND CRIME STORIES 2021 by Crime Spell Books. My short story, “No Cities to Love,” is a kind of futuristic take on women taking care of themselves and...