Welcome back, Jill Emerson!

Over a ten-year period starting in the mid-1960s, I brought out seven books as Jill Emerson. In 2011, I wrote an eighth—Getting Off, published by Hard Case Crime. And just last month I added a ninth book to the list—Shadows, the first book I ever wrote, originally...

Time to tiptoe through the Tombstones…

Have you seen it yet? Here’s the scoop— A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson, written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the tenth Matthew Scudder novel, opened Friday, September 19, throughout the US and UK and most of the world. (But some...

A newsletter for the Fourth of July

I know, I know. These newsletters are like buses. You wait and you wait and you wait, and then three of them come one right after the other. But I’m leaving town in a couple of days, and it’ll be the middle of August before my next newsletter can darken your...