Voices Carry

I’m not a great collector of Web-based interviews with crime, mystery, and thriller novelists. Much better at that enterprise are the folks behind Indie Crime Scene, who cobble together long weekly round-ups of links, many of them to exchanges with writers.

Occasionally, though, I do happen across discussions that I think are worth passing on. For instance, Do Some Damage’s Paul J. Garth recently spoke with Scott Von Doviak about his “ ’70s-set soon-to-be classic caper,” Lowdown Road. Meanwhile, Nancie Clare interrogated S.A. Cosby (All the Sinners Bleed) for her Speaking of Mysteries podcast; for Crimespree Magazine, Michael Koryta submitted to questioning on the subject of his new novel, An Honest Man; Laura Lippman talks with The Guardian’s Lauren Mechling about Prom Mom, “her most political novel to date about a teen with an unwanted pregnancy”; David Joy discusses his latest yarn, Those We Thought We Knew, with The Christian Science Monitor’s Noah Davis; Karin Slaughter (After That Night) shares some of her fiction-writing techniques with Shots’s Heather Fitt; and Andrew McAleer, the son of Edgar Award winner John McAleer, resurrects an excerpt from his father’s long-ago confab with the famous Rex Stout.