William Landay

May 1, 2023 | boisestatepublicradio.org | William Landay |Walt Bogdanich

Here & Now‘s Tiziana Dearing speaks with author William Landay about his new book, “All That is Mine I Carry With Me.” The novel centers around the disappearance of a Massachusetts mother and its effect on her three children as well as her husband, who is suspected of her murder. Book excerpt: ‘All That is Mine I Carry With Me’ By William Landay After I finished writing my last novel, I fell into a long silence.

May 1, 2023 | scribd.com | William Landay

Here & Now‘s Tiziana Dearing speaks with author William Landay about his new book, “All That is Mine I Carry With Me.” The novel centers around the disappearance of a Massachusetts mother and its effect on her three children as well as her husband, who is suspected of her murder. Book excerpt: ‘All That is Mine I Carry With Me’By William LandayAfter I finished writing my last novel, I fell into a long silence.

Apr 12, 2023 | criminalelement.com | Chanel Cleeton |Thomas Mullen |William Landay |Susan Wels

Chanel Cleeton visits the site today to talk about why she's so drawn to historical crime fiction, and about what inspired her to write her new novel, The Cuban Heiress, which just launched this week! Writing historical fiction frequently feels like playing detective as I research events in the past, trying to understand what happened and why, looking for clues in the historical record that help me bring a setting and time period to life for readers.

Mar 31, 2023 | the-back-room.org | Jordan Harper |William Landay |Susan Patterson |Alisa Valdes

Join authors Jordan Harper, William Landay, Susan Patterson, and Alisa Lynn Valdés along with Back Room hosts Karen Dionne and Hank Phillippi Ryan for an evening of great conversation! REGISTER The Authors William Landay is the author of All That Is Mine I Carry With Me and three previous novels: Defending Jacob, which won the Strand Critics Award for best mystery novel; The Strangler, listed as a best crime novel of the year by the L.A. Times, Daily Telegraph and others; and Mission Flats,...

Mar 7, 2023 | crimereads.com | William Landay

Here is the first sentence of my new novel: “After I finished writing my last novel, I fell into a long silence.”And here is the opening sentence as I originally composed it: “After I finished writing my last novel, which was called Defending Jacob, I fell into a long silence.”The narrator of that original draft, as you might have guessed, was a character named Bill Landay. Was the character actually me, the guy who wrote Defending Jacob — which is to say, not a fictional character at all?