AUTHOR OF THE WEEK May 3
Martha Grimes
(Novels and Detective Mysteries: Richard Jury Series, Emma Graham Series)
“I enjoy these characters a lot. I really like thinking about them, watching them, seeing what they’re going to do. I write about these people, and I get really connected to them and I just cannot let them go.”
“The plot is not there in advance. It’s just not there.”
“You’re not really a writer unless you’re actually writing. So that’s why I continue to do it: because I want to continue to think of myself as a writer.”
Martha Grimes (born May 2, 1931) is an American writer of detective fiction, author of more than thirty books. She is the bestselling author of twenty-one Richard Jury novels (Scotland Yard inspector), as well as the novels Dakota and Foul Matter. Her character-driven mysteries fall into the subgenre of cozy mysteries. She is also the author of Double Double, a dual memoir of alcoholism written with her son. The winner of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Newsweek named her “one of the established masters of the genre.”
Interview with Martha Grimes at AuthorMagazine.org
Visit Grimes’ Amazon.com page:
https://www.amazon.com/Martha-Grimes/e/B000APFU50
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