As an avid mystery reader, you undoubtedly know there are countless wonderful
women crime novelists, most of whom have equal male - female audiences.
Not exact matches
Lee, whose most recent credit includes the screenplay for A Beautiful Lie about
crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, recently attended the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive and spoke with us about her creative origins, inspiration culled from the Hong Kong New Wave, and how she hopes to balance the scales when it comes to
women on screen.
Although Easy Rawlins is a reluctant sleuth, agreeing to search for a white
woman only after being fired from his job as a machinist, he would go on to become one of the genre's legends, guaranteeing his author's reputation as the most important black
crime novelist since Chester Himes.
We talked with the best - selling
crime novelist about what it's like to be a millionaire, her theories on Jack the Ripper and Princess Diana, and writing your own role models as a
woman.