Tell me why your story is a quintessential Chicago Only thing your two books have in common is that they take place among theįamiliar sights of Chicago. The conversations are combined and lightly edited. The story brims with complex female characters, psychosexual manipulation, and plenty of drama on and off the stage.īelow is an interview between Chicago Review of Books contributor Lori Rader-Day and both Calkins and Fargo. This sinister, of-the-moment novel focuses on the power struggle between an ambitious actress and an abusive director, but you don’t have to be a theater buff to enjoy it. Temper is a feminist psychological thriller set in the Chicago theater world. Temper is also Layne Fargo’s first Chicago novel - because it’s her debut. Murder Knocks Twice is fun and rollicking, with plenty of historical Chicago detail and jazzy lingo. Calkins has turned her sights on her adopted hometown for the story of a young 1920s flapper who stumbles into a job as a cigarette girl at The Third Door, a fictional speakeasy set on Chicago’s Near West Side. Murder Knocks Twice is the first in a new series by Susanna Calkins, the author of the award-winning Lucy Campion mysteries set in 1600s London. A pair of recent Chicago-set novels show the breadth of Chicago’s robust crime-fiction scene.
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