Jan 29, 2022 | A Word With The Author
Why do you write the genre that you write?I’ve always loved mysteries. My first book, written when I was 11, was a murder mystery called The Hair of the Dog. How did you come up with your pseudonym?My grandmother’s name was Ellen Griffiths. I didn’t know her very well...
Jan 22, 2022 | A Word With The Author
Why do you write the genre that you write?I’ve always been an avid mystery reader. Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew were childhood favorites and my obsession grew from there. I love cozy mysteries, both as a writer and a reader, because they are “feel...
Jan 15, 2022 | A Word With The Author
Why do you write the genre that you write?My first love was Southern short stories. I fell madly in love with the works of Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty, among others. My ambition was to write short stories, until my agent urged me to write novels instead....
Jan 8, 2022 | A Word With The Author
Why do you write the genre that you write?I think most of us write what we read. I grew up reading a whole lot of fantasy, along with some mystery and science fiction—Freddy the Detective, Sherlock Holmes, the Hardy Boys, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Three Investigators...
Jan 1, 2022 | A Word With The Author
Why do you write the genre that you write?I write traditional mysteries, because on a fundamental level they deal with justice. The resolution of a criminal investigation provides the kind of satisfying conclusion that often isn’t available to us in real life and is...
Dec 25, 2021 | A Word With The Author
Why do you write the genre that you write?I think Jo Nesbø encapsulated it best when he said, “Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people—about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.” There’s so much freedom in writing crime...
