Michael Connelly

And he was like a master of that.

I love Stephen King's books and so forth.

And, you know, Poe was just, uh, you know, an early master.

I probably, I can't put my finger on it.

I'm sure first time I encountered his work was when I was, um, a student, it was probably assigned to me somewhere.

And, uh, you know, it's just one of those influences you have of, um,

Looking over your shoulder.

I like books and I hope I write them where you feel like you just got to check over your shoulder, you know, just make sure there's no one behind you.

And I think that was something that Poe was great at.

No, I don't.

I mean, I read a lot of newspapers.

I don't... You know, there's been a few books in recent years about crimes in Los Angeles.

There's a big case where a kind of a well-known detective with the LAPD had...

It turned out through DNA on a cold case.

It came back to her, and she had been celebrated like 25 years in the LAPD.

But before, when she was a rookie, she had killed somebody, murdered somebody.

She was contending with this woman for the love of a man, and she killed this woman.

Quite a brutal way and then went on to have a career in the LAPD and she rose through the ranks and was on TV quite a bit because she became their art theft expert and a fascinating case Of living with that, you know for all all those years and actually being part of law enforcement So a book just came out about that and that was the last true crime book.

I've read and

Yeah, I mean, the sad part of my life, and this is, you're talking about my bookshelf.