by vjbooks | Apr 16, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Barbara Parker, 62, a lawyer-turned-author who wrote 12 mystery novels, died Saturday (Mar. 9, 2009) in Boca Raton, Fla., after a long illness. Her first novel, Suspicion of Innocence, was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best first mystery novel by...
by vjbooks | Jan 25, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(popmatters.com, Jan. 19, Nikki Tranter) Hallie Ephron Hallie Ephron is an author, teacher, and book reviewer. She writes a monthly column for the Boston Globe entitled, “On Crime”, and spends much of her time traveling the country teaching writing workshops. Hallie...
by vjbooks | Jan 25, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Stuart Woods was born in the small southern town of Manchester, Georgia and attended the local public schools, then graduated from the University of Georgia, with a BA in sociology. In the Fall of 1979 he had contracted to publish a novel, on the basis of two...