Xochitl Gonzales

1 week ago | crimereads.com | Laura Leffler |Steve Martin |Xochitl Gonzales |Elizabeth Hand

When I started writing my debut thriller, Tell Them You Lied, I didn’t set out to write an art historical crime novel. It begins in Brooklyn on the morning of 9/11, which in my mind is not history but memory. I was a recent college graduate and newbie New Yorker on that day, zombie-walking the stunned streets, inhaling the fumes, and taking photographs. But memory is reliably unreliable, and to write the story I wanted to write, I had to do research too.