Editor and writer Sarah Weinman’s anthology, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, will undoubtedly introduce crime fans to those it’s-about-time-they-were-discovered authors. This is an excellent collection of unsettling tales from Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy B. Hughes, Joyce Harrington, Margaret Millar and other female writers working during the mid-20th century. Weinman mentioned a few other past and present crime writers and books of note during our interview, and here they are in no particular order:
- Harlen Coban
- Linwood Barclay
- Ira Levin
- Dorothy B. Hughes’ The Expendable Man and In a Lonely Place
- A. S. A. Harrison’s The Silent Wife
- Laura Lippman’s And When She was Good
- Hallie Ephron’s There was an Old Woman