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‘Goodbye to the Dead,’ A Talk with Brian Freeman

March 20, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

brian freeman cr. martin hoffstenBrian Freeman is an internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense novels. His books have been sold in 46 countries, and have been Main Selections in the Literary Guild and Book of the Month Club. His novels have been nominated for prestigious awards, and two have won the Macavity Award and an award presented by the International Thriller Writers Organization. Before breaking into the fiction writing world, Brian was a communications strategist and business writer, and served as director of marketing and public relations for an international law firm.

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‘Interior Darkness,’ A Conversation with Peter Straub

February 16, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Peter Straub-photoPeter Straub needs no lengthy introduction. As a novelist and poet, he has received many literary honors including the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. In 1965, he earned a B.A with honors in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison; and one year later, an MA from Columbia University. In 1969, he moved to Dublin, Ireland to work on a Ph.D and began writing professionally. Peter collaborated with Stephen King on two novels, The Talisman and Black House.

Interior Darkness, a collection of 16 short stories written over the course of years, demonstrates Peter Straub’s uncanny ability to blur literary genres and pen short stories ranging widely in length, style and tenor, providing a highly entertaining and unusual volume.

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‘Find Her,’ A Conversation with Lisa Gardner

February 10, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

LisaGardner_cPhilbrickPhotographyLisa Gardner is one of the best-known names in all of thrillerdom. She’s received praise from Lee Child, Karin Slaughter, Tess Gerritsen, among many others. With more than 22 million books in print, she’s written an FBI profiler series; the Detective D.D. Warren series; and a number of standalone novels.

In Find Her, Flora Dane shares the protagonist role with Detective D.D. Warren. Some years earlier, while on Spring Break in Florida, Flora found herself waking up in a pinewood box.  In pain and disoriented, she began months of captivity at the hands of an abductor.

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‘The Ex,’ A Conversation with Alafair Burke

January 27, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Alafair BurkeAlafair Burke is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 novels. She is also the
co-author of the Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.

The Ex is the story of Olivia Randall, a top-flight criminal defense attorney who receives a telephone call from the 16 year old daughter of a man who 20 years earlier, had been her fiancé and whose heart she broke in the worst way imaginable.

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‘Where It Hurts,’ A Conversation with Reed Farrel Coleman

January 26, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Reed Farrel Coleman (c) Adam MartinReed Farrel Coleman, known to thriller lovers everywhere, is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Robert B. Parker’s The Devil Wins, in addition to having written twenty-two other novels. Because of his writing style, he’s been dubbed a “hard-boiled poet” and the “noir poet laureate”. He’s received the Shamus Award three times for best detective novel of the year, and has also won the Barry Award and the Anthony Award, in addition to being a three-time Edgar Award nominee. His books include nine novels in the Moe Prager series.

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Tami Hoag and “The Bitter Season”

January 15, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Tami Hoag_creditJanCobbTami Hoag is an internationally bestselling author of more than thirty books. Over forty million copies are in print in thirty languages. She is known for crafting intricate and intense psychological thrillers probing the darkest corners of her characters’ minds.

The Bitter Season brings back Minneapolis detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac in this five-book series. Nikki, injured in an earlier crime, is now working in the cold-case unit, trying to solve a case from twenty-five years earlier. A decorated sex-crimes detective was shot dead from a distance and there seems little hope of finding the killer who got away so many years ago.

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‘Written in Fire,’ A Conversation with Marcus Sakey

January 12, 2016 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Marcus Sakey’s thrillers have been nominated for multiple awards, including an Edgar AwarMarcus Sakey_Credit_Jay_Franco_high-resd nomination for Brilliance, the first book in the Brilliance Trilogy. His novel Good People was made into a movie starring James Franco and Kate Hudson. Brilliance is now in development with Legendary Pictures.

After graduating from college, Markus Sakey worked in advertising and marketing. His debut thriller, The Blade Itself, was published to wide critical acclaim, allowing him to work full-time as a writer.

Written in Fire is the gripping conclusion of The Brilliance Trilogy (following Brilliance and A Better World). In 1986, incredibly gifted people known as brilliants or abnorms were born, and thirty years later, constitute one percent of the U.S. population.

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What Acclaimed Writers Love About Writing

December 8, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Over the years, I’ve had the incredibly good fortune of interviewing many of the most widely-read novelists on the planet. I often (but not always) ask certain questions of each author. One of my favorites is: What do you love about the writing life?

Here are excerpted answers from some highly acclaimed writers.

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Robert Crais: What I love about the writing life–despite the bad days when I have to force my way through–is when I’m there ‘in the moment,’ when what’s happening on the page is real and true and good; and I’m there with Elvis Cole or with Joe Pike or with Maggie and Scott, and I’m in complete touch with my emotions. That’s when things come together and may burst into something I hadn’t necessarily planned. There’s no better feeling. That’s what it’s all about. ~Talking about his novel, The Promise

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‘The Conversation,” A Talk with Robert Crais

November 12, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

Robert Crais, Exley FotoRobert Crais, known to lovers of suspense and crime novels for having written many New York Times bestsellers, including Suspect and Taken, has just completed The Promise, his twentieth novel and the latest in his Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series.

He began his career by writing television scripts for shows such as Quincy, Miami Vice, and LA Law.

He credits Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker, and John Steinbeck for influencing his writing style.

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‘Depraved Heart,’ A Conversation with Patricia Cornwell

October 31, 2015 by Mark Rubinstein Leave a Comment

PCORNWELL photo credit PatrickEcclesinePatricia Cornwell is known to millions of readers worldwide. She has won nearly every literary award for popular fiction and has authored 29 New York Times bestsellers. Her novels center primarily on medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, along with her tech-savvy niece Lucy and investigator Pete Marino.

In her newest novel, Depraved Heart, we find Kay Scarpetta working on a highly suspicious death, when an emergency alert sounds on her cell phone. It seems to be coming in on a secure line from her niece, Lucy; and a video link plays a surveillance tape of Lucy taken almost 20 years earlier. Additional video clips follow, along with a strange series of incidents involving Lucy, the suspicious death of a Hollywood mogul’s daughter, the FBI, and the unseen presence of a “depraved heart” behind these mysterious events.

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