Linda L. Richards is the award-winning author of over one dozen books. The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a contributing editor to the crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, Canada and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona.
Her latest novel is Dead West.
Recently I asked Richards about what she was reading. Her reply:
Right now I am reading The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin. I have not read this book before, and yet it gives me the feeling of getting back to my roots as a crime fictionist. I’ll tell you why. The Edgar-Award winningVisit Linda L. Richards's website.novel came out in 1958. It has the slow burn and languorous pace of a Patricia Highsmith novel, where you find yourself with your heart in your throat and you can’t even imagine how it got there.
In The Hours Before Dawn, an overworked and undervalued young mom takes in a boarder who soon appears to be not quite what she seems. This is proto suspense thriller done to perfection. I can’t wait to see where this one goes.
Fremlin was the author of 16 novels, many of them, as British author Lucy Lethbridge has said, “centering round the home as the harbour of a particularly horrible, intimate, terror.”
My Book, The Movie: Endings.
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Q&A with Linda L. Richards.
The Page 69 Test: Exit Strategy.
The Page 69 Test: Dead West.
--Marshal Zeringue
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