Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

If you could ask ONE question to an author, ANY author, who would it be and what would you ask?

I think I'd ask Carl Hiaasen how he constantly comes up with characters who are off-kilter but still realistic, so that the reader never says, "A real person would never do that!"

Quillracer, I’ve seen Hiaasen in person several times & he always says that he takes the characters straight from real people & incidents that have happened in Florida. They’re a crazy bunch down there.

Icewineanne wrote: "They’re a crazy bunch down there."

Probably because of the heat and humidity.

Icewineanne, that’s a fact. I live in Tampa, FL. I moved here 2 years ago from New England. There’s some crazies here.

Bruce wrote: "Icewineanne, that’s a fact. I live in Tampa, FL. I moved here 2 years ago from New England. There’s some crazies here."

Outside of the serious stuff, the rest of the newscast must be very entertaining!

I'd like to talk to Edgar Allan Poe. I'd have a lot of questions but I'd start with what prompted him to write Murders in the Rue Morgue. I started reading his works when I was very young. (maybe I should move to Tampa :) )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mur... If I recall well (because many other writers and composer refer to this story) it found it's base in an old story that went in Paris involving a non-human culprit murdering people... If it's true, I don't know..

I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mur.... If I recall well (I read ALL of his stories and books) it was based on non-identified stories going round in Paris about a strange "something" killing people... Other writers and musicians refer to Poe as the "godfather" of the genre

Thank you Nadine.

I've never tried but I do, at the beginning of the year, cull my to be read list. I often wonder, how/why a particular book caught my interest previously and now I have no desire to read it.