What is it about Los Angeles that has spawned so many mystery writers?
That constant change means you can’t ever completely know the city, which makes it prime fodder for investigation of its dark corners. Too, it’s a city where the many circles that make it up, don’t often overlap. So unlike places such as NY, DC and Atlanta where there are at least subsets of some of these circles, in LA there usually aren’t. Which means if you walk into a circle in which you don’t normally travel, that’s a whole new world, literally. And literarily. To what do you attribute the increasing numbers of African-American women moving into the mystery genre? What drew you to writing mysteries? Are you a longtime mystery reader? I think we were just overlooked in the genre before–women in general were–and as a couple of people show the way, more see that it can be done, and do it. I’ve been a mystery reader for decades–but I didn’t know always that they were mysteries. As a child, I loved The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, part of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia se
