Review: The Storytellers: Straight Talk From The World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors Edited by Mark Rubinstein

About the Book:

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 more than 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 47 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.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58708170-the-story-tellers

Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/fvvycu8n

My Thoughts:

Reading Mark Rubinstein’s collection of author interviews is like going to one of those fabled, literary circle cocktail parties. I felt like a party crasher eavesdropping on juicy conversations.

I really enjoyed getting the inside scoop on these acclaimed mystery and thriller authors. From an author’s memory of a book reading where no one attended to another author’s strict adherence to not including a location that he hasn’t visited, The Storytellers is an excellent look at the mystery and thriller authors we readers love.