Full Faith and Confidence: A Conversation with
Denise Mina

July 11, 2022 • CrimeReads.com

Denise Mina is a wonder to behold—not to mention read. 

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Glasgow—her hometown where she lives and works and gets around as a pedestrian and a bicyclist is a city of brutal frankness where a thick skin is a necessity of life and it's very hard to feel special. "Glasgow," Denise says, "is a place where people come up and talk to you…my whole career has been people walking up to me in the street and saying, 'I read your last book. And I thought it was shit. And this is what you did wrong.'" 

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With Confidence, Denise's seventeenth novel, the accidental podcasting team of Anna McDonald and Fin Cohen, who readers met in Conviction, are back. Armed with digital recorders and cell phones, the action takes Anna and Fin far afield from Scotland on trains, planes and automobiles searching for a missing vlogger. 

California Son: A Conversation with T. Jefferson Parker

January 18, 2022 • CrimeReads.com

While it might seem like T. Jefferson Parker is the only person I interview for print, he isn't. But he just might be my favorite. And of course, he's gracious enough to say "yes" to my request. 

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The men and women who populate Parker’s novels and the terrain they traverse—from Laguna Beach, Newport and San Diego to Lancaster, El Segundo and Mammoth Lakes—aren’t just in California, they are of California. They couldn’t be anywhere else and be who they are and that sets Parker apart and makes him the quintessential California crime fiction writer. 

Great Scot!

November 8, 2012 • Pasadena Weekly 

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Not long after returning from the debut Bloody Scotland Crime Fiction Festival, I wrote this travel piece about my experiences at the festival and my visit—with crime fiction author extraordinaire Denise Mina as my guide—to Glasgow