Top Ten Fictional Women Detectives and PIs GUEST POST FOR THE STRAND FROM KARA THOMAS AUTHOR OF LOST TO DUNE ROAD, Thomas & Mercer   Crime fiction has come a long way in terms of how women characters are represented—gone are the days where women were either office secretaries or nagging wives to the male […]

Writing a Cozy Set on the Big Island of Hawai‘i By Leslie Karst, author of Molten Death   When A Fish Out of Water Meets an Active Lava Flow “Will we sip Mai Tais on white sand beaches under azure skies with puffs of trade wind clouds above? Will the strains of ukuleles and sweet […]

A Reflection on My New Book, WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA? by Dervla McTiernan   My new book, WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?, is out very soon, and I’m bracing myself, just a little, that some readers might think some parts of the story are a little far-fetched. If they do, I’m prepared with my rebuttal argument! […]