Who’s Talking Now?

Is it simply my imagination, or has there been an extraordinary plenitude lately of interesting interviews with authors of crime and mystery noves? Endeavoring to collect them all would be a fool’s errand, but here are a few that caught my eye.

• Don Winslow talked with both National Public Radio’s Scott Simon (my favorite morning host, by the way) and CrimeReads’ Nick Kolakowski about City in Ruins, the final book in his trilogy starring “Danny Ryan, who's been a Rhode Island mobster, dockworker and fugitive from the law, is now a pillar of the community in Las Vegas.”

• In The Girl with All the Crime Books, journalist Louise Fairbairn questions Edinburgh author Philip Miller about The Hollow Tree, his second novel to feature investigative reporter Shona Sandison (following 2022’s The Goldenacre). Meanwhile, Miller tells Crimespree Magazine about “Five Things that Inspired The Hollow Tree.”

• With her 22nd V.I. Warshawski novel, Pay Dirt, due out from William Morrow next week, author Sara Paretsky responds to queries from Robin Agnew of Mystery Scene about that Kansas-set tale.

• For her popular Murder By the Book podcast, Sara DiVello says she “is so excited” to chat with Robert Dugoni about A Killing on the Hill, his Seattle-based historical thriller that recalls “the shooting of a lightweight boxer at the Pom Pom nightclub by a gangster” on Profanity Hill. “The trial that ensued became the trial of the century.”

• Crimespree’s Elise Cooper speaks with Mary Kubica about She’s Not Sorry, a work of suspense that focuses on an intensive care nurse who’s trying to figure out whether attempted suicide or attempted murder was behind a patient’s traumatic brain injury.

• And for The Strand, Andrew McAleer resurrects a conversation he had with Edgar-winning novelist Robert B. Parker back in 2006.