S. 8, Ep. 5: Interview with Crime Writer David Rohlfing The Crime Cafe

This episode of the Crime Cafe podcast features my interview with crime writer David Rohlfing.



Learn more here about his Detective Sasha Frank mysteries!



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Debbi  Hi, everyone. I'm pleased to have with me today the author of the Detective Sasha Frank mysteries. He is currently working on his third book in that series. It's my pleasure to introduce my guest, David Rohlfing. Hi, David, how are you doing today?

David  1:11 I'm doing very well, Debbi, how are you?

Debbi  1:14 Excellent. Thank you. Oh, I love your backdrop. Look at those covers. Very, very nice.

So tell us about Sasha Frank, what inspired you to write this particular series about this particular protagonist?

David  1:29 Well, I think I was, it was suggested to me by a friend when I was nearing retirement from my business career that I should write a book. But he suggested that I write a book about business and business philosophy and the like, in especially customer service, which I was heavily involved with. So I attempted to do that and I found out very quickly that it's difficult to write a book like that, because you're really writing about yourself and I wasn't comfortable doing that. So I instead pivoted and thought, well, maybe I could write a mystery novel. And I sat down and over one winter for a few months, and just sat down and actually wrote DELIBERATE DUPLICITY and initially, it was only going to be the first book in the series.

But I enjoyed writing it and enjoyed the character very much, who I developed and wrote a second book COLD CONSEQUENCES, but the character its himself was derived from being a small, smaller town detective. Obviously, there's a lot of detectives in big cities across the country. But there's not a lot of smaller towns and I live in a town that's got about 120,000 people in the two cities that make up this area and I thought it would be interesting to write about a smaller detective in the Midwest.





Obviously, there's a lot of detectives in big cities across the country. But there's not a lot of smaller towns and I live in a town that's got about 120,000 people in the two cities that make up this area and I thought it would be interesting to write about a smaller detective in the Midwest.