[Bangkok photo credit, NPR]
I caught today's installment of "Crime in the City" on National Public Radio, featuring Laura Lippman and "her" Baltimore. Already interviewed: Donna Leon on Venice, and John Burdett on Bangkok. Tomorrow (Friday) will be Michael Connelly on Los Angeles. The interviews are archived and can be played at www.npr.org . Definitely recommended!
From the NPR site:
in this Series
Part 1: Donna Leon's Venice: A Tale of Two Cities
August 20, 2007 · To detective novelist Donna Leon, there are two Venices. One is the real Venice inhabited by ordinary Venetians, who know each other's secrets. The other is filled with loud tour guides and attracts up to 20 million visitors a year.
Part 2: Beyond Sex, Tourists in John Burdett's Bangkok
August 21, 2007 · John Burdett's Bangkok is far more than the bizarre murders, corrupt cops and big-hearted bar girls of his novels. It's also the city as a living breathing, thing. Web Extra: Book Excerpts
Part 3: Laura Lippman's Baltimore: Loving a Flawed Place
August 23, 2007 · From the Antique Man's giant ball of string in Fells Point, to the crab cake lunch downtown, Laura Lippman loves Baltimore. Despite the city's crime and other problems, the crime novelist says its flaws are what make it an interesting place.
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