He Gets Around

In his latest “Getting Away with Murder” column for Shots, novelist, raconteur, and notorious gossip Mike Ripley holds forth on subjects including: Alan Williams’ “forgotten” gem of a work, The Headline Book of Spy Fiction; the British bother over the title of Alafair Burke’s new novel; his secret for maintaining an active life so full of writing and parties (“clean living--and vast amounts of alcohol”); and why author Lee “L.M.” Jackson’s seventh novel, a Victorian tale called Diary of a Murder, is available only online.