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...

“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...

Boston Lit Crawl!

This year, the Boston Book Fest’s Lit Crawl is “taking it to the streets,” in that all events will be OUTSIDE! The June 10 eventincludes three evening sessions (at 6, 7, and 8 pm), and I am thrilled that I’ll be part of two events, both taking...

Celebrating Cathy’s CORPSE

Well, not exactly – but the wonderful Welsh-Canadian author Cathy Ace has a new book out, her tenth Cait Morgan Mystery, The Corpse with the Iron Will. Cathy’s not only a celebrated creator of atmospheric crime fiction, the IPPY and Bony Blithe Award-winning ...