“An understated crime fiction gem . . . a wildly thought-provoking whodunit,” is how the Chicago Tribune termed Barbara Fister’s first Chicago-based crime novel featuring ex-cop and current PI Anni Koskinen. That work, In the Wind, finds Anni herself the object of an FBI investigation when she unwittingly helps a fugitive escape. Fister locates her [...]
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Murder by Arrondissement: Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc Novels of Paris
Posted in Interviews, tagged Aimée Leduc, arrondissement, Cara Black, Paris, Scene of the Crime on February 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Today Scene of the Crime welcomes veteran mystery writer Cara Black, author of the popular Aimée Leduc series, set in contemporary Paris. Black knows her setting and relishes taking the reader into the insider’s Paris, as noted by a reviewer for the New York Times who wrote, “If the cobblestones of the old Marais district [...]
Philip Kerr’s Berlin
Posted in Interviews, tagged Berlin, Bernie Gunther, historical mystery, Isherwood, Le Carre, noir, Philp Kerr, Weimar on February 12, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Today’s guest needs little introduction to the legion of fans he has around the world. The author of the popular Berlin-based Bernhard Gunther series, Philip Kerr has also written stand-alone bestsellers, including A Philosophical Investigation, Dead Meat, The Grid, Esau, A Five-Year Plan, The Second Angel, The Shot, Dark Matter, and Hitler’s Peace. Critics often [...]
Canadian Conundrums: The Crime Novels of Vicki Delany
Posted in Interviews, tagged British Columbia, Canada, J. Sydney Jones, mystery, Scene of the Crime, Vicki Delany on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Vicki Delany brings us closer to home, vis-à-vis setting, for our next Scene of the Crime interview. A well-known Canadian writer, Delany sets her contemporary Smith and Winter series in British Columbia. But she also has a historical mystery series set in the Yukon Territory of 1898. For this interview, Delany concentrates on her contemporary [...]
Berlin Noir: Rebecca Cantrell’s Hannah Vogel Series
Posted in Interviews on February 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Rebecca Cantrell is the award-winning author of the Hannah Vogel series, set in 1930s Berlin. Cantrell’s Hannah is a crime reporter who, in the series opener, A Trace of Smoke, investigates the murder of her own brother, a cross-dressing cabaret star. An investigation of the seamy underside of Weimar Berlin, this debut was hailed as [...]
J. Sydney Jones
J. Sydney Jones is the author of the acclaimed "Viennese Mystery" series, set in Vienna 1900. Novels include THE EMPTY MIRROR, REQUIEM IN VIENNA, and THE SILENCE.
“What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, J. Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna.”
-Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling authorVisit him at his Web site: www.jsydneyjones.com
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