Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'journalist'
Killer historical mysteries
The 2008 Agatha nomineeshave been announced and author Kathy Lynn Emerson’s book, How to Write a Killer Historical Mystery, is on the Best Non-fiction list. The core of the book is Emerson’s personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research from over forty other historical mystery writers and insights from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. As the author of two popular historical mystery series, the Face Down Mysteries featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, and the Diana Spaulding Mysteries, set in 1888 in various U.S. locations featuring journalist Diana Spaulding, she certainly knows her stuff.Tartan Noir
Prolific bestselling author Val McDermid comes from Fife in the coal-mining region of eastern Scotland. On her website she explains “I had always wanted to write, ever since I realised that real people actually produced all those books in the library.” After a career in journalism she began her first crime novel in 1984. She recalls that reading a Sara Paretsky mystery a "defining moment" because it was "a mystery with an urban setting that dealt with contemporary women's lives, that didn't shy away from engaging with the politics of the society it reflected, and that was fun."A nose for the news
There has been a noticeable increase in the number of broadcast crime and investigative reporter mysteries of late. Michael A. Black and Julie Hyzy have brought their respective series detectives P.I. Ron Shade and TV reporter Alex St. James together in Dead Ringer. Julie Kramer’s debut mystery Stalking Susan introduces Riley Spartz, a Twin Cities investigative TV journalist. Kramer is a freelance news producer for the Today Show and Dateline. Real-life BBC crime correspondent Simon Hall has created fictional TV crime reporter Dan Groves who becomes involved in the death of painter who is murdered after he creates a series of ten paintings containing a mysterious riddle.Feed Subscription
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