

Two nights later, while making a house call in a Brooklyn apartment building, Rick’s 64-year-old father is shot and killed in the exact same way. Later that evening while watching the local news, Rick and his fiancee, Jackie, see a photo of the victim-to their horror, the deceased looks identical to Rick. He soon learns a passerby was shot three times in the back, murdered at the front door to Rick’s office. When Rick Shepherd, a physician, approaches his office on a busy Manhattan street, he finds police cars, an ambulance, and crime scene technicians. Rick Shepherd is being stalked by a murderer. Visit his website at his doppelganger is killed-then it’s his father.

He now writes fiction and nonfiction, has been a contributor to the Huffington Post, was a contributor to Psychology Today, contributes columns to Literary Hub’s Crime Reads, and is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books. The Lovers’ Tango won the gold medal in Popular Fiction at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards. His novella Return to Sandara (2014), won the gold IPPY Award for Suspense/Fiction.

His novella The Foot Soldier won the silver award in the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition in the Popular Fiction category. Mark Rubinstein’s high-octane thrillers Mad Dog House (2012) and its sequel, Mad Dog Justice (2014), were both finalists for the Foreword Book of the Year Award. Learn more about your favorite authors, how they work and who they truly are. How do these writers’ life experiences color their art? Find out their thoughts, their inspirations, their candid opinions. These are their personal stories in their own words, much of the material never before published. Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post.Ĭollected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished authors, including Michael Connelly, Ken Follett, Meg Gardiner, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and Don Winslow.

Registration details are at the bottom of this page. This event is free, but registration is requested. Read of The Day is an event partnership series brought to you by Bank Square Books and The Day. Bank Square Books presents a Read of The Day author talk and Q&A with Mark Rubinstein for the release of the new book The Storytellers. Rubinstein will be in conversation with Rick Koster, arts & culture writer for The Day.
