Today, Houston-based author and attorney Russell G. Little joins us for an interview about his newest crime thriller novel, Murder by Storm.

Thanks for joining us, Russell. Were you born and raised in Houston?

I was born in Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo is in the Panhandle. It’s flat as far as you can see, windy, and covered with mesquite. The federal government builds bombs there. After graduating from law school, I married a Houston girl, who promptly announced we were moving to Houston. It was the best thing she could have done for me. I practiced law in Houston for forty years, raised three kids, and I’m still married to that same woman. People are usually quite surprised about that since one of my most successful areas of law is family law, as well as divorce and criminal law. …