Monthly Archives: February 2014

Why Investigative Reporter Liam Mulligan Fears The Future

Like most newspaper professionals these days, Liam Mulligan, a fictional investigative reporter at The Providence Dispatch, fears the future. The paper’s longtime-owners, a group of wealthy Rhode Island families who have controlled the Dispatch since the Civil War, always ran … Continue reading

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“Kirkus Reviews” Raves About “Providence Rag”

Kirkus Reviews, one of the bibles of the publishing industry, has included my latest crime novel Providence Rag, in it’s list of “Eight Tales to Warm You Up for the New Year.” The review says the novel “was inspired by Rhode Island’s … Continue reading

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Touring Providence, The Setting For My Mulligan Crime Novels, With NPR’s Jennifer Ludden

With my new crime novel, Providence Rag, scheduled to be released in two weeks, I am re-posting this edition of NPR’s “Crime in the City.” I got to take public radio correspondent Jennifer Ludden on a  tour of Providence, R.I., … Continue reading

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“Providence Rag” Book Tour Schedule

The cross-country book tour to promote Providence Rag, the third novel in my Edgar Award-winning Mulligan crime series, started on March 11 with a book release party at Manhattan’s famous Mysterious Bookshop. From there, I’ll be crisscrossing the country from San … Continue reading

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My Mulligan Novels Are Cleverly Disguised Contemporary History, Right? Uh . . . No.

During the forty years I worked as a journalist, I was troubled by brilliant writers such as Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, who delighted in blurring the lines between faction and fiction. How is a reader supposed to know how … Continue reading

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