When The Black Echo was published in 1992, it emerged without the usual fanfare that accompanies a major debut. Yet even before the novel quietly won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, crime-fiction critics sensed something different. Here was a writer whose prose straddled the line between classic noir and straight-up literature. At the […]
Author Archives: Andrew Gulli
Interview with Patricia Cornwell
by John Valeri Patricia Cornwell has been at the forefront of crime fiction’s pioneering authors since initiating the forensics boom with Postmortem in 1990. That book—the first to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize in a single year—introduced iconic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta. A medical […]
Interview with Peter James
Interview with Peter James I met Peter James nearly twenty years ago at a convention in Madison, Wisconsin. What began as a brief introduction—by Will Balliett, who back then was the publisher of Carroll & Graf—turned into a seven-hour marathon of conversations, drinks, parties, and dinner. Peter wasn’t just another crime writer. He was interested […]