Rick Kleffel of the terrific website/podcast The Agony Column just did an amazingly in-depth interview with Joshua Spanogle, author of Isolation Ward a new medical/noir novel inspired by such authors as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. You can download the full MP3 interview HERE.
Last Saturday BBC Radio 4 started a new limited three-part series entitled Music To Die For hosted by mystery writer Ian Rankin! Rankin, along with other noted crime writers John Harvey, Mark Billingham, John Connolly, Robert Crais, George Pelecanos, James Sallis and Karin Slaughter, talk about how music has had a profound influence on their writing. Two more shows are set to follow.