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Interview: Jeannette de Beauvoir on The Lowdown
I joined Ira Wood on WOMR’s The Lowdown to talk about Trafficking in Murder, the craft of mystery writing, and what keeps Sidney Riley’s world growing after eleven books.
Interview: Jeannette de Beauvoir on Trafficking in Murder
A recent interview spotlights the eleventh Sydney Riley mystery, where a murdered TV producer, a missing Wampanoag woman, and Sydney’s past collide in Provincetown.
Interview: Jeannette de Beauvoir on The Art Colony
I was delighted to be Gaston’s guest on this wonderful show that explores the riches of Provincetown as an art colony! Here’s what Gaston said: “This week I meet mystery novel author and Provincetown legend Jeannette de Beauvoir! Learn all about her writings and her monthly event “Making Light” at the Provincetown Commons.
Interview in the Provincetown Independent
Getting ready for the official BOOK LAUNCH on Saturday May 24th!
Interview: Why I Write Mysteries
We like to see justice done, especially when we perceive that the real world isn’t playing fair with us. If the guilty party is caught and punished in the fiction we read, then perhaps we regain the sense of order that’s lost whenever we hear the news. Every day, we see situations that have us baffled, and our minds seek to cope with them: it often feels that everything is getting way too far out of control. Reading about Inspector Whatever arresting the culprit restores a little harmony, a little control, a little of a feeling of safety.
Cozy Up With Kathy interview
Kathy: What first drew you to cozy mysteries?
JDB: I have to go back in history to G.K. Chesterton. When crime novels were first finding their footing, they were all about clues and alibis and so on… but when Chesterton introduced Father Brown as detective, he made crime investigation human. Father Brown imagined how both the victim and the killer experienced life and what drove both to their fatal encounter. He understood people.
Exclusive Interview by Paul Semel
What will someone get out of The Honeymoon Homicides if they’ve already read all of the other books?
I think the strength of a series (and the reason I enjoy writing them) is in the development of the characters. No one is the same person year after year; we grow, we change, we experience things, we have new thoughts. And the same thing happens to fictional characters.
Interview: The Lowdown
I joined Ira Wood on WOMR’s The Lowdown to talk about mystery writing, my books, and the stories and ideas behind them.
