Voices Carry

I’m not a great collector of Web-based interviews with crime, mystery, and thriller novelists. Much better at that enterprise are the folks behind Indie Crime Scene , who cobble together long weekly round-ups of links, many of them to exchanges with writers.

Occasionally, though, I do happen across discussions that I think are worth passing on. For instance, Do Some Damage’s Paul J. Garth recently spoke with Scott Von Doviak about his “ ’70s-set soon-to-be classic caper,” Lowdown Road . Meanwhile, Nancie Clare interrogated S.A. Cosby ( All the Sinners Bleed ) for her Speaking of Mysteries podcast; for Crimespree Magazine , Michael Koryta submitted to questioning on the subject of his new novel, An Honest Man ; Laura Lippman talks with The Guardian ’s Lauren Mechling about Prom Mom , “her most political novel to date about a teen with an unwanted pregnancy”; David Joy discusses his latest yarn , Those We Thought We Knew , with The Christian Science Monitor ’s Noah Davis; Karin Slaughter ( After That Night ) shares some of her fiction-writing techniques with Shots’s Heather Fitt; and Andrew McAleer, the son of Edgar Award winner John McAleer, resurrects an excerpt from his father’s long-ago confab with the famous Rex Stout.