The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog shows us scenes of the perilous US-Mexico border, where a significant portion of Richard Lange’s Angel Baby takes place.
From the beginning I knew that I wanted one particular death in the book to stand out, to resonate, to hurt. For inspiration, I returned to a few literary “last moments” that had moved me over the years.
Read Richard Lange’s list of literary last moments and then pick up a copy of Angel Baby to figure out which scene these moments inspired.
From Brain Pickings’s feature on The Letters of Raymond Chandler. Totally worth reading the article—and the letters themselves!—in full.
If you’ve stood in MacArthur Park surrounded by an evangelist reciting scripture through a megaphone, eaten in a pupuseria with plastic floral tablecloths covering its tables or spent a day at a weathered miniature golf/arcade fun zone in the suburbs, you will recognize Lange’s Los Angeles.
Jigsaw Magazine interviews Richard Lange, author of the newly released thriller Angel Baby.
So based on this characterization, how many of you recognize Lange’s LA?
(Source: jigsawmagazine.com)
Luz is on the run, trying to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying, especially if her husband,El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, catches up with her. Read more about her story here.
Mark Billingham takes a minute to introduce The Demands, which is available as an eBook for just $2.99 at the following retailers:
Kindle | iBookstore
Keep reading this historical thriller that imagines essayist Thomas De Quincey as both a detective and a murder suspect here.
Fiction Meets Geek History With YOU
It’s not often that I find myself personally relating to a novel’s primary character, but Austin…
“All of us geek dads who grew up watching computer games grow and mature… well, this is one of our stories.”
Richard Lange evocatively describes the Tijuana that inspired him to write Angel Baby.
If you’ve seen our book trailer for The Shining Girls, then you’ll understand why this is a “special” card in our companion card game.
