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Rhys Bowen is now collaborating on the Molly Murphy Mysteries with her daughter Clare Broyles, which allows the two writers to work on a topic of great importance to both of them: women’s rights. RHYS: It’s funny how characters take on a life of their own, the moment a writer creates them. We can only follow helplessly as they forge a path for themselves and go in directions we never expected them to. When I started writing the Molly Murphy Mysteries I never pictured that Molly would become a champion for women’s rights. It was not my intention to write a treatise, highlighting the abuses against women. I just wanted to tell good stories about the immigrant experience an…
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David Heska Wanbli Weiden is a Renaissance man. Not only did he write Winter Counts, a book which won nearly every crime-writing award last year, David also holds an MFA degree, a law degree, and a Ph.D. As if that weren’t enough, Dr. Weiden is also a tenured professor of Native American Studies and Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Oh, yeah, he also teaches MFA classes on the side. I was more than thrilled to talk shop with such an erudite author. I might’ve even been a little nervous. Turns out, David’s kindness far exceeds his education. Which makes complete sense once you hear his amazing story. Eli Cranor: What’s your writerly origin st…
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On June 28, 2004, in rural Appalachia, a man with my name and my profession strangled his father in the passenger seat of his Toyota Tacoma. The other Dr. Gilmer was a family medicine physician in North Carolina, at a small clinic he’d founded with his wife near the tiny town of Fletcher. He was recently divorced, living alone in a house on the hill above his office. In the weeks and months before that night, he’d been drinking more than usual, going out to bars during the week. He’d also been making some impulsive decisions—like buying the brand-new truck he was driving, even though he was massively in debt. After a full morning of seeing patients, Dr. Vince Gilmer l…
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When you think of mysteries and thrillers set in institutions of learning, no doubt you think first of all the terrific novels that take place in universities and elite boarding schools in New England and the British countryside. These novels, known collectively as the “Dark Academy” sub-genre, have a gothic quality—with turreted buildings, eccentric teachers, overly smart students, secret societies, and classical languages. The perfect archetype of this genre is Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, although my own favorite is Tana French’s The Secret Place (does any other crime writer pack as much into a single sentence as French?). There are old classics such as Dorothy Sa…
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