Entries from Blood on the Page tagged with 'The Garden of Evil'
An International Celebration for Three Bantam Dell Thriller Authors
Three Bantam Dell authors were recognized for their novels this week. In England, Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble and David Hewson's The Garden of Evil were both shortlisted for the fifth annual Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the... more
History isn't always that old, you know
Monday. Oh that means Houston, doesn't it? Murder by the Book, 6.30 pm tonight. But let's step back to San Francisco for a moment, back into history. When I'm in Italy I tend to do this in giant steps. In... more
A book derailed.. what real life does to authors
So, as I related yesterday, there I was about to write a book called Dante's Numbers, set entirely in Rome around a movie based upon Dante' Inferno. Easy peasy. Or as easy peasy as it ever gets. Then, out of... more
The original idea for Dante's Numbers
Authors are thieves and liars, and the better we do it, the happier you lot are. Some people steal real characters and stories then weave some fabrication around them. I'm a little different. I lift a piece of Italy's rich... more