Speaking Parts

I haven’t spent as much time recently as I used to collecting and posting about author interviews of probable interest to fans of crime, mystery, and thriller fiction. Several have attracted my attention lately, though, and I want to highlight them here.

For CrimeReads, Rob Hart talks with Craig Clevenger, author of the new novel Mother Howl, in which the son of a serial killer struggles to escape his past. Meanwhile, Steve Powell features in his blog a conversation he had with Andrew Nette about Orphan Road, the latter’s second novel (following 2016’s Gunshine State) to feature professional thief Gary Chance. Crimespree Magazine contributor John B. Valeri chats with Charles Salzberg about Man on the Run, Salzberg’s follow-up to Second Story Man (2017). In The Guardian, Tim Adams grills former FBI director James Comey about his first crime thriller, Central Park West. Crime Time FM host Paul Burke questions Swedish novelist Åsa Larsson and her translator, Frank Perry, about Sins of Our Fathers, which was named the 2021 Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year. NPR’s Don Gonyea quizzes New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher on the subject of her new memoir, What the Dead Know.

And though it’s really more of a “story behind the story” essay than an interview, Alison Gaylin relates in CrimeReads her love for Robert B. Parker’s lesser-known private eye, Sunny Randall, and how she sought to bring Sunny “into the modern age” in Bad Influence.