Top Ten Prohibition-Era Books

Top Ten Prohibition-Era Books by Katharine Schellman   Prohibition looms large in the American imagination as a time of flappers, gangsters, jazz music, and illegal liquor. Its cultural staying power is partly thanks to the literature of the era. The novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Claud McKay, Nella Larson, and their contemporaries have […]

Interview with Maren Cooper

TSM: Tell us about your upcoming release, Behind the Lies. MC: My third novel takes a turn to suspense. Somewhat comparable to “The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave, the main character, Will, is given unexpected news by his boss. This news echoes throughout the book as the boss spirals into a comatose […]

Five ‘Sweet As’ Kiwi Crime Authors

Five ‘Sweet As’ Kiwi Crime Authors by Sara E. Johnson ‘Sweet as’ is Kiwi slang for ‘awesome.’ I want to finish the simile. Sweet as pineapple lumps. Sweet as pavlova. Sweet as crime novels set in New Zealand. In the nine months I spent in Aotearoa (Māori for Land of the Long White Cloud), place […]