Can We Talk?

Some folks think that author interviews are easy to do. They’re wrong. So author Julia Spencer-Fleming (All Mortal Flesh) deserves mighty props for conducting pretty thoughtful conversations with all four of her rivals for this year’s Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel, and posting them on her Web site. Her subjects: Jacqueline Winspear (Messenger of Truth), Earlene Fowler (The Saddlemaker’s Wife), Nancy Pickard (The Virgin of Small Plains), and L.C. Hayden (Why Casey Had to Die).