Katherine's Book Backyard

In Game of Thrones , John Snow asks Tyrion Lannister why he's always reading. "A mind needs books," he says, "like a swor...

Patricia Cornwell, creator of the Kay Scarpetta mysteries used to live in Richmond, Virginia. The first novel in the series, Postmortem , i...

I used to work for a now-defunct weekly newspaper called the L.A. Reader . I was a general assignment reporter there, which meant I covered ...

It may surprise people who know my fiction that I really have a taste for "cozies." I am very fond of the "Hamish Macbeth...

I am a member of the LA branch of Sisters in Crime (SinC) although I think I'm currently behind on my dues. I love the organization for ...