From the Mysterious to the Presidential: Ten Things you didn’t Know about the Bronx Zoo Zoos are magical places, especially now that the emphasis in most of them has changed from caging animals to conserving them. And to me, everything magical is by its very nature mysterious, too. What better place to imagine a motive […]
Author Archives: Linda Fairstein
Stuck on Nancy Drew: Timeless Classics for Readers of All Ages
Stuck on Nancy Drew: Timeless Classics for Readers of All Ages (Linda Fairstein in her article “Stuck on Nancy Drew: Timeless Classics for Readers of All Ages” goes down memory lane and explores the lure of the books that have been by millions of fans for the past 80 years.) I’ve still got the newspaper […]
Top Ten Secrets You Didn’t Know About New York City’s Fashion World
Top Ten Secrets You Didn’t Know About New York City’s Fashion World When I started to write crime novels twenty years ago, I was still prosecuting homicides and sexual assault cases in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. My day job was courtrooms and crime scenes, while writing came after hours. As a young […]
The Hidden History of Grand Central Station
The Hidden History of Grand Central Station Like many people who read crime fiction, I enjoy “smart” thrillers—not just car chases and shootouts—books from which I’ve come away with a good measure of suspense and entertainment, but also enriched by something I’ve learned in the hours spent inside the story. In each of […]