For Rachel Howzell Hall, the titular female character in her Detective Elouise Norton novels is the epitome of a good cop. In Hall’s crime fiction series, the down-to-earth Norton is a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective who uncovers mysteries in Los Angeles while battling her own struggles. “I think for the most part, people of color, writers of color who write mystery and crime, have written the proper cop,” Hall said Friday evening during a Los Angeles Times Festival of Books event. Before the end of the hour-long talk, Queally asked the authors about their writing process: “Music or no music? But working from home because of the pandemic has stripped her of an important step in her writing process: commuting.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 24, 2020 16:07 UTC