Month: January 2017

Ten Tough Heroines you should know about! I started my publishing career writing award-nominated borderland noir fiction set in Mexico and Texas. These days I write thrillers about Camaro Espinoza, a bad-ass former combat medic […]

Seven Thrillers Featuring Social Media I like to write novels that explore contemporary phenomena, and I like to read them, too. Love it or hate it, social media is a nearly inescapable part of how […]

Top Ten FBI Novels As a writer, I love creating FBI characters. In fact, I have an entire series around an FBI profiler. Her job allows me to send her across the country (and overseas, […]

Top Ten Crime Novels Set in London London’s a maze, both in space and time. Its hidden alleyways, buried layers of history, and extremes of poverty and wealth all cry out for detection. When I […]

Why Karin Slaughter’s Books are Destined to be Thriller Classics Before you ask, the answer is no. Thriller author extraordinaire Karin Slaughter did not pay me to write this list. I’m simply a reader and fellow author […]

Top Five Fictional Stories Inspired by Real-Life Axeman of New Orleans Think about being hacked up in your sleep, at your most helpless. That horror might explain the fascination with the Axeman of New Orleans, […]

Lucky Number 8: The Top 8 Mysteries set in China  Crime, punishment, and corruption have always been prominent themes in Chinese literature. Operas and novels from the Yuan Dynasty (1271 – 1368) attest to the […]

Lucky Number 8: The Top 8 Mysteries set in China  Crime, punishment, and corruption have always been prominent themes in Chinese literature. Operas and novels from the Yuan Dynasty (1271 – 1368) attest to the […]

Top Ten Crime Novels with a Puzzle You wouldn’t buy a fresh copy of the newspaper so you could fill out the same crossword puzzle or Sudoku a second time nor watch an episode of “Jeopardy!” […]