Janice Hallett’s latest book is The Christmas Appeal. Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, recently welcomed Hallett so they could talk about this novella, and her other books. You can order The Christmas Appeal through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/3FP3O1f

Here’s the description of The Christmas Appeal.

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows the hilarious Fairway Players theater group as they put on a Christmas play—and solve a murder that threatens their production.

The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their festive holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for a new church roof. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the amateur theater enthusiasts with petty rivalries, a possibly asbestos-filled beanstalk, and some perennially absent players behind the scenes.

Of course, there’s also the matter of the dead body onstage. Who could possibly have had the victim on their naughty list? Join lawyers Femi and Charlotte as they investigate Christmas letters, examine emails, and pore over police transcripts to identify both the victim and killer before the curtain closes on their holiday production—for good.

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Janice Hallett is a former magazine editor, award-winning journalist, and government communications writer. She wrote articles and speeches for, among others, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, and Department for International Development. Her enthusiasm for travel has taken her around the world several times, from Madagascar to the Galapagos, Guatemala to Zimbabwe, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. A playwright and screenwriter, she penned the feminist Shakespearean stage comedy NetherBard and cowrote the feature film Retreat. She lives in London and is the author of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, The Appeal, The Christmas Appeal, and The Twyford Code.

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You can watch the discussion here.

Jim Shockey’s debut novel is Call Me Hunter. Jack Carr was recently guest host at The Poisoned Pen to discuss the book with the author. Signed copies of Shockey’s Call Me Hunter are available in the Webstore. https://bit.ly/3QDjxqG

Here’s the description of Call Me Hunter.

“Astoundingly original, relentlessly paced, and purely authentic.” —Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author

An elite secret society of killers has controlled the world’s treasures for hundreds of years…until one member tears himself free to salvage his soul and protect his daughter’s life in this electrifying and thrilling debut.

The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts are unknown.

Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery, forgery, and even murder. Once found, the masterpiece will disappear again without anyone ever knowing it surfaced and sold for billions of dollars of profit at a secret auction attended by only the wealthiest of the art world’s patrons.

One of Our World’s rare geniuses is Zhivago. He is also a psychopathic killer. On his trail is Hunter, a man who will stop at nothing to destroy the organization and save his daughter from suffering the same fate her mother did at its hands.

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Jim Shockey is a Canadian writer, worldwide adventurer, wilderness outfitter, television producer, and host. He is an expert in folk and tribal art and founded the Hand of Man Museum in British Columbia. Follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @JimShockey_. Find out more at JimShockey.com.

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Enjoy the conversation with Jim Shockey and Jack Carr.

One Last Kill is the tenth Tracy Crosswhite mystery. Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, recently welcomed Robert Dugoni back to the bookstore so he could talk about that book, and others in the series. Signed copies of One Last Kill are available in the Webstore. https://tinyurl.com/59emekku

Here’s the description of One Last Kill.

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series.

Detective Tracy Crosswhite draws a long-dormant serial killer out of hiding in a nerve-shattering novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.

Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle’s Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims’ families and redeem the Seattle PD’s reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco.

Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco dares Tracy to do what he failed to: close the case. Forming an uneasy alliance, Tracy and Nolasco revisit old leads and pursue new evidence only to unearth high-level corruption and cover-ups as dangerous as the elusive killer himself. At the risk of being exposed, such deadly and powerful forces will go to extremes to stay in the shadows.

That’s just where Tracy and Nolasco are headed—to find the twisted truth behind a killer’s motives, his disappearance, and his chilling comeback.

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Robert Dugoni is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold more than eight million books worldwide; the David Sloane series; the Charles Jenkins series; the stand-alone novels Her Deadly Game, The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Played Chess, and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel. He is a two-time finalist for the Thriller Awards and a finalist for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for Mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. His books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Visit his website at www.robertdugonibooks.com.

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Enjoy the conversation about Dugoni’s books.

It’s been a while since David Baldacci’s last in person appearance, but Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, recently welcomed him back. The Edge, which will be released Nov. 14, is the latest 6:20 Man novel. You can order signed books through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/40jUsV0

Here’s the summary of The Edge.

The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America’s dirtiest secrets—can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out?
 
When CIA operative Jenny Silkwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless operatives. In need of someone who can solve the murder quickly and retrieve the missing information, the U.S. government knows just the chameleon they can call on.
 
Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine spent his time in the military preparing to take on any scenario, followed by his short-lived business career chasing shadows in the deepest halls of power, so his analytical mind makes him particularly well-suited for complex, high-stakes tasks. Taking down the world’s largest financial conspiracy proved his value, and in comparison, this case looks straightforward. Except small towns hold secrets and Devine finds himself an outsider again.
 
Devine must ingratiate himself with locals who have trusted each other their whole lives, and who distrust outsiders just as much. Dak, Jenny’s brother, who’s working to revitalize the town. Earl, the retired lobsterman who found Jenny’s body. And Alex, Jenny’s sister with a dark past of her own. As Devine gets to know the residents of Putnam, Maine, answers seem to appear and then transform into more questions. There’s a long history of secrets and those who will stop at nothing to keep them from being exposed. Leaving Devine with no idea who he can trust… and who wants him dead.

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DAVID BALDACCI is a global #1 bestselling author, and one of the world’s favorite storytellers. His books are published in over forty-five languages and in more than eighty countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. His works have been adapted for both feature film and television. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at DavidBaldacci.com and his foundation at WishYouWellFoundation.org.

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Enjoy Barbara Peters’ conversation with David Baldacci.

Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, asked Lisa Unger the question that interested me. Christmas Presents, Unger’s latest book, is called a novella, although it’s 240 pages. You can watch the event to hear Unger’s answer. Peters stresses this is not a cozy Christmas story to make you feel all warm and fuzzy. You can order signed copies of Christmas Presents through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/46FCw9z

Here’s the description of Christmas Presents.

A SheReads, Criminal Element, CrimeReads, and Zibby Mag “Most Anticipated” Thriller

Instead of presents this Christmas, a true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case…

Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She’s the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline’s, who have been missing for nearly a decade. It’s an investigation that has obsessed her father Sheriff James Martin right up until his stroke took his faculties.

Harley Granger has a gift for seeing things that others miss. He wasn’t much of a novelist, but his work as a true crime author and podcaster has earned him fame and wealth—and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Still, visiting Little Valley to be closer to his dying father has caused him to look into a case that many people think is closed—and some want reopened. And he has a lot of questions about the night Stephanie Cramer was killed, Ainsley and Sam Wallace disappeared, and Madeline Martin was left for dead, bleeding out on a riverbank.

Since Evan Handy went to jail, three other young women have gone missing, most recently a young college dropout named Lolly. Five young women missing in the same area in a decade. Are they connected? Was Evan Handy innocent after all? Or was there some else there that night? Someone who is still satisfying his dark appetites?

As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline and her childhood friend Badger return to a past they both hoped was dead—to find the missing Lolly and to answer questions that have haunted them both, discovering that the truth is more terrible and much closer to home than they think.

Coupling a picturesque, cozy setting with a deeply unsettling suspenseful plot, Christmas Presents is a chilling seasonal novella that can be enjoyed all year long.

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Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author. With books published in thirty-three languages and millions of copies sold worldwide, she is widely regarded as a master of suspense.

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Here’s the video of Lisa Unger’s appearance for The Poisoned Pen.

I was about to post the recap of a recent event at The Poisoned Pen, but I saw the upcoming schedule of events, and it was too good not to share. How about a schedule that includes David Baldacci, Rhys Bowen, Janet Evanovich, and Michael Connelly, along with other terrific authors? Check out the schedule, and then you might want to preorder books through the Webstore. https://store.poisonedpen.com/

Here’s the next couple weeks at The Poisoned Pen.

It was time to celebrate holiday mysteries at The Poisoned Pen. Barbara Peters, owner of the bookstore, welcomed authors Paula Munier and Spencer Quinn. Quinn’s Up on the Woof Top, the latest Chet and Bernie mystery, is a Christmas story. Paula Munier’s Home at Night is set at Halloween. There are signed copies of both books available in the Webstore. https://store.poisonedpen.com/

Here’s the description of Up on the Woof Top.

Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe) and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing.

At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne’s expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case turns out to be about much more than reindeer after Dame Ariadne’s personal assistant takes a long fall into Devil’s Purse, a deep mountain gorge. When our duo discovers that someone very close to Dame Ariadne was murdered in that same spot decades earlier, they start looking into that long ago unsolved crime.

But as they reach into the past, the past is also reaching out for them. Can they unlock the secrets of Dame Ariadne’s life before they too end up at the bottom of the gorge? Is Rudy somehow the key?

Up on the Woof Top is a brand-new holiday adventure in Spencer Quinn’s delightful New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that the Los Angeles Times called “nothing short of masterful.”

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Spencer Quinn is the pen name for Peter Abrahams, the Edgar-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling Bowser and Birdie series for middle-grade readers. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife Diana and with his dogs Pearl and Dottie.

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Here’s the summary of Paula Munier’s Home at Night.

Beware the blackbirds…

It’s Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr’s small cabin. She needs more room—and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it’s haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in the library.

There’s something about Grackle Tree Farm that people are willing to kill for—and Mercy needs to figure out what before they move in. A coded letter found on the victim points to a hidden treasure that may be worth a fortune—if it’s real. She and Captain Thrasher conduct a search of the old place—and end up at the wrong end of a Glock. A masked man shoots Thrasher, and she and Elvis must take him down before he murders them all. Under fire, she and Elvis manage to run the guy off, but not before they are wounded, leaving Thrasher fighting for his life in the hospital, Mercy on crutches, and Elvis on the mend.

Now it’s up to Mercy and Troy and the dogs to track down the masked murderer in a county overflowing with leaf peepers, Halloween revelers, and treasure hunters and bring him to justice before he strikes again and the treasure is lost forever, along with the good name of Grackle Tree Farm….

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PAULA MUNIER is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. HOME AT NIGHT, the fifth book in the series, was inspired by her volunteer work as a Natural Resources Steward of New Hampshire. Along with her love of nature, Paula credits the hero dogs of Mission K9 Rescue, her own rescue dogs, and a deep affection for New England as her series’ major influences. A literary agent by day, she’s also written three popular books on writing: Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, and Writing with Quiet Hands, as well as Happier Every Day and the memoir Fixing Freddie: The True Story of a Boy, a Mom, and a Very, Very Bad Beagle. She lives in New England with her family and Bear the Newfoundland-retriever rescue, Bliss the Great Pyrenees-Australian cattle dog rescue, pandemic puppy Blondie, a Malinois rescue (much like Elvis in her books), and Ursula The Cat, a rescue torbie tabby who does not think much of the dogs. For more, check out www.paulamunier.com.

By Patrick Millikin

Boston Teran first arrived on the scene back in 1999 with the publication of God is a Bullet (which we selected for our First Mystery Club). In the years since, the pseudonymous Teran (his real identity has been kept a closely-guarded secret) has created a substantial body of work, largely ignoring genre limitations and forging his own path. In 2001, Never Count Out the Dead introduced readers to William Worth, an agoraphobic LA journalist who writes under the pen-name “Landshark.” Now, more than twenty years later, Teran has brought Worth back, just when it seems we need him most. Big Island L.A. (click to order a signed copy) is at once a classic of Los Angeles crime fiction and somehow captures the city as it is now. I’m pleased to select the book as the November selection of the Hardboiled and Noir Club. I conducted the following brief interview with Boston Teran via email. Enjoy!

1. Big Island LA is told through Landshark’s eyes and commentary. It is, as you write, “as much about the state of his Los Angeles and soul as it is about a pyramid of corruption and murder.” Why did you decide to bring him back now? It does seem like we’re at a peculiar turning point in time, and Los Angeles as always is a funhouse mirror.

Twenty years since NEVER COUNT OUT THE DEAD and Landshark… That long! Blade Runner should be collecting Social Security by now.

The Los Angeles of that first book—NEVER COUNT OUT THE DEAD—used to be utterly definable. Much of the city’s persona was born of movies, music, books, art, and television. It was a faux reality that people came to love, believe in, and lean on.

But now, Los Angeles is besieged and being broken to pieces. Not only historically, but culturally, socially. And no one is yet sure, nor is it possible to be sure, what Los Angeles will come to be, and to mean.

The city wants to portray itself as the ultimate progressive vision. A vision buffed up by social media and the soft sell, while it bears the curse of poverty, homelessness, disillusionment, and a host of lesser sufferings—all with a quiet and invisible disdain.

It seems the city would like to raze its dark side with bigger and even better dark sides. And the strain of those extremes its domineering force. Its arsenal the new era of TikTok, X, and all the usual big ticket tech platforms where lurk unseen agents known as indifference and moral paralysis.

So who better to bring down from the shelf, dust off, shine up, and let loose other than William Worth—aka Landshark—the living embodiment of Los Angeles extremes?

2. Journalists, especially “outlaw” (for lack of a better term) journalists are of such crucial importance today, challenging the perceived wisdom, giving voice to those who usually have none, and sometimes at great personal risk (I think, especially of certain heroic Mexican journalists). Are there any particular journalists who informed the character of Landshark?

If the Landshark of NEVER COUNT OUT THE DEAD was, as you rightly suggest, a classic eccentric, then the Landshark of BIG ISLAND, L.A. is a classic eccentric 2.0.

When you say that “outlaw” journalists are of crucial importance, it’s true. Because much of journalism has been taken over by critical corporate powers that have the means to reshape the world, and mean to do it.

Most of the small, independent newspapers, etc., have gone the way of the printing press. They’re museum pieces. It’s the new technologies that have opened up unchartered avenues where stories can escape to daylight, important stories that otherwise would die unnoticed.

Now it’s mostly the journalist who dies unnoticed. And they don’t even have the benefit of health insurance for all the effort.

As for who informed Landshark, he was created from the ground up—the agoraphobia, the family history of depravities and sexual abuse, the parents’ mega wealth come by way of the pharmaceutical business. He was a “modeled character,” you might say, as he was the book’s stand in for Los Angeles.

What did inform him was the L.A. WEEKLY, which I’m sure you are familiar with as the alt newspaper of that era, and the perfect home for a William Worth to become Landshark.

As an aside—for your audience—have them check out Lalo Alcaraz, whose famous cartoon strip, the first Latino themed strip, called “La Cucaracha,” first appeared in the L.A. WEEKLY of that era.

3. Ana Ride and her father are great characters. Can you write a little about what inspired them?

BIG ISLAND, L.A. is as much about a series of damaged families, families at odds with each other, broken families, lost and failed families.

Ana Ride and her father are certainly one of those families and pivotal to BIG ISLAND as they are literally the past, present, and future of a story that has them in its grip.

Now…how they came to be, especially Ana Ride. I wish I could tell you the answer came from some instant of literary provenance, or a hip contemporary article I read that became a dramatic fated moment.

The truth is much simpler, but straight out of L.A., and in that respect fits the book well.

I was at the home of a film freak friend of mine who was watching an old Hollywood movie…Wee Willie Winkie…which is itself the story of a broken family that features a child at a British military fort in India during the colonial period.

It starred Shirley Temple. Big star in her day and she was only six. In the original book by Rudyard Kipling, Wee Willie Winkie was a boy, but Hollywood juiced it up, changing the character to a girl, even squeezing in a song or two.

Now it also happens that the movie Ana and her father were watching at the beginning of the book was Wee Willie Winkie. And my film freak friend bears a telling resemblance to Ana’s father. My film freak friend also had, shall we say, a deeply flawed relationship with his own  daughter.

Now, the differences between a father and daughter, especially a wounded hero of a daughter, who in some respects has “outmanned” and “outgunned” that father, who was military and LAPD himself, are born for the stuff of spontaneous literary combustion.

4. The reader will be tempted to draw parallels between Landshark’s reclusiveness and your own anonymity. The two, of course, are not quite the same. Worth is in many ways a classic Los Angeles eccentric. Do you find at this stage of the game, that your anonymity is as important as ever? I imagine that it probably is. Your books have always offered a sane perspective on history, challenging the popular narrative and our tendency to sanitize the past.

Anonymity, to me, says—I am my books.

By removing myself from the equation my books are left to live or die on their own merit. To fend for themselves with history. I neither help them nor hurt them.

Writers, as you know, are often pigeonholed by their personal lives and beliefs, their histories, as to what they can and cannot write about. I saw it coming a quarter century ago when I began.

There was no real social media then, but it was there. It just did not have quite the grasp of technology then to back up its contradictory passions.

How many writers have been limited, if not grounded, by publishers or a public that since they do one kind of book, they can’t do another?

Didn’t Mark Twain suggest publishing The Prince and the Pauper anonymously so his name for comedy would not get in the way? And wasn’t it the same for his Joan of Arc?

Anonymity, for me, is also—freedom.

I answer to no one, except those ghosts in my head that took me here. And so I have the right to go down in flames, by choice, for my choices, and I’m willing to be judged accordingly.

I appreciate your suggestion I offered a sane view on history, challenging the popular narrative and our tendency to sanitize the past. That sentence caused me to wonder: Do we sanitize the past because we have been such abject failures at cleaning up the present? And if so, are we, as a culture, aware of it?

What does your audience think?

5. Los Angeles is a shape shifter, its history endlessly mythologized. There are still ghosts of the city’s frontier past. Big Island LA really captured this beautifully. Were you at all influenced by some of the city’s classic chroniclers, such as Raymond Chandler, Dorothy B Hughes (esp. In a Lonely Place), Nathanael West, John Fante and so many others?

I love this question because it causes me to ask: How much did the literary chroniclers contribute to L.A. mythology, and how much did L.A. mythology contribute to the works of the chroniclers?

It seems it was the movies that struck a fatal blow for L.A. mythology. They made the city the poisoned giant that it is. The real west had been an essential part of L.A. history, then in no time at all, it was nothing more than film locations for westerns being shot there.

Los Angeles had become a crossroads of corruption and golden promise through the twenties and  thirties and what came with it—the Raymond Chandlers, the John Fantes, the James M. Cains, the Dorothy Hugheses. A list of artists that goes on, that had a more acute and cutting  contemporary vision of their world.

They were taking all that corruption and reinventing it. Creating an iconography of a city. They were putting the worst of Los Angeles to good artistic use. And Los Angeles was a willing accomplice because all that crime and corruption found its way into the work of those artists which created more mythology that books and films fed on.

You mention Dorothy Hughes and In a Lonely Place.

The book had exceptional originality, social definition, and a diamond hard view of mankind that created a bastard child, the movie, which had Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Creating more mythology.

In its own way that set piece of book—movie—place is pure distilled L.A. An L. A. that begat websites dedicated to the book and the movie and their particular similarities and peculiar differences. And then there are the real locations and details the writer of the book used, and the  L.A. locations the filmmakers used. And stories about each and comparisons to other books and movies in an ever increasing mythology.

It’s like one of those labyrinthine libraries Jorge Luis Borges was so fond of using in his pinpoint tales.

If I could ask Landshark what he thought of all this, I think I’d go to a comment I was saving for him further down the road.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m swimming in a great sea of the blind.”

Andrew Child recently appeared at The Poisoned Pen to talk about the 28th Jack Reacher thriller, The Secret. Barbara Peters, owner of the bookstore, said this is the last Reacher that Lee Child will write with his brother. Andrew Child has a contract to write the next four books. There are signed copies of The Secret available through the Webstore. https://tinyurl.com/ye3ycc96

Here’s the summary of The Secret.

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child

A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.

1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention.

That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.

But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?

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Lee Child is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher series and the complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City and Wyoming.

Andrew Child, who also writes as Andrew Grant, is the author of RUN, False Positive, False Friend, False Witness, Invisible, and Too Close to Home. He is the #1 bestselling co-author of the Jack Reacher novels The Sentinel, Better Off Dead, and No Plan B. Child and his wife, the novelist Tasha Alexander, live on a wildlife preserve in Wyoming.

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Enjoy the conversation as Andrew Child talks about family, and Jack Reacher.