You’re on Your Way: An Interview with Jamie Mason

IF YOU ASK a group of crime novelists to list the most exciting stylists working today, Jamie Mason’s name is bound to come up. In many thrillers, the language is workmanlike — plain, even. The suspense is the point; the sentences are the delivery system. In Jamie’s books, however, the words themselves are, if not […] The post You’re on Your Way: An Interview with Jamie Mason appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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