Mark Rubinstein

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post.

Collected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished authors, including Michael Connelly, Ken Follett, Meg Gardiner, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and Don Winslow. These are their personal stories in their own words, much of the material never before published. How do these writers’ life experiences color their art? Find out their thoughts, their inspirations, their candid opinions. Learn more about your favorite authors, how they work and who they truly are.

Simon Vance

Marguerite Gavin

Lloyd James

Marc Vietor

various narrators

Bernadette Dunne

Robertson Dean

Stefan Rudnicki

Patrick Lawlor

Scott Brick

Mark Bramhall

Carrington MacDuffie

Hillary Huber

Michael Kramer

Pam Ward

Malcolm Hillgartner

John Lescault

Kirsten Potter

Keith Szarabajka

Karen White

Paul Heitsch

John McLain

Mirron Willis

Susan Ericksen

Natalie Ross

John Lee

John Rubinstein

Ralph Lister

George Newbern

Eileen Stevens

Robert Fass

Andrew Eiden

Suzanne Toren

Kathleen Early

Richard Poe

Andi Arndt

Nancy Wu

Derek Perkins

Ann Richardson

David de Vries

Tim Campbell

Chris Abell

Suzie Althens

Joe Hempel

Blackstone Publishing

The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors

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