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Jasmine Schwartz is the hottest new voice in crime fiction. Her novels “Farbissen: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Money” and “Fakakt: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Sex” are witty and daring, sneaking weighty subjects like sex-trafficking and drugs into storylines that at first seem breezy. In this interview, Jasmine talks in her inimitable [...]

My guest blogger today is superhot crime novel phenom Jasmine Schwartz. Jasmine is the author of Farbissen: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Money and Fakakt: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Sex, which have been called “Bridget Jones with guns and dead bodies.” Today she brings her incisive wit to bear on the original [...]

Poisonville makes music about crime fiction, by crime fiction writers. Based around my songwriting and playing, Poisonville does original songs about greats like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and about hot new crime writers like Jasmine Schwartz. This song is co-written by The Talented David Brinn, who also plays accordion on it. The corrupt town [...]

The hottest new voice in crime fiction is Jasmine Schwartz. Her great debut “Farbissen” and its follow-up “Fakakt” have earned plaudits for her and for her detective, neurotic New York fashionista Melissa Morris. The books have been called “Bridget Jones with guns and dead bodies.” But Jasmine’s no Renee Zellweger softie, as you’ll see from [...]

I hok you no chainik when I recommend you read “Farbissen” and “Fakakt,” the great new crime novels of Jasmine Schwartz. Jasmine is an important and hilarious new voice in crime fiction — and that’s no shmontses! Her first two novels “Farbissen: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Money” and “Fakakt: Melissa Morris and the [...]

The only thing as evocative as a good noir crime novel is music. So, I thought, how about making an album of music about crime fiction? That’s what I’ve done and I’m unveiling it here. The project’s called Poisonville, after the mispronounced location of Dashiell Hammett’s first novel “Red Harvest.” (The place was really called [...]