Falling into new books…

Why “genre?,” I asked my editor. Why not just ask me to pick five novels for the fall preview? I was all ready to launch into my usual “don’t ghettoize us into different categories, we’re all storytellers, etc.” when he explained...

What if they were stealing kids?

Stephen King is always fun to read. These days, he’s also increasingly political – but that doesn’t take away from the sheer thrill of his new The Institute. Read my review in the Boston Globe here.

Five Questions with Susan Larson

It’s probably odd for most of Susan Larson’s fans to hear that she’s written a mystery, though the subject – Mozart – would make sense to them. After all, Susan was an opera singer before she turned to fiction. But I edited Susan’s writing...