Episodes

  • Episode 241: Jennifer Hillier

    Episode 241: Jennifer Hillier
    Jul 19 2022
    All Paris Peralta wants in Things We Do in the Dark, Jennifer Hillier’s new suspense novel, is live a quiet life. Well, as the saying goes: make a plan and the gods laugh. Paris is arrested for her husband’s murder and even she has to admit it doesn’t look good, she’s found next to her... Read more »
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  • Episode 265: Robert Crais

    Episode 265: Robert Crais
    Jan 16 2025
    “There is nothing more frightening than the secrets our loved ones keep from us,” says Robert Crais about Elvis Cole’s latest case in The Big Empty. Traci Beller, an influencer known as The Muffin Girl, hires Elvis to find out what happened to her father who went to the outskirts of Los Angeles ten years... Read more »
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    24 mins
  • Episode 264: Sharon Short

    Episode 264: Sharon Short
    Dec 7 2024
    Sharon Short first heard the story of Great Aunt Ruth—the inspiration for Aurelia Escalante, the protagonist of Trouble Island—right before her wedding when she was gifted Aunt Ruth’s ring, which she’s wearing in her photo. When Sharon’s soon-to-be sister in law suggested a trade for another family heirloom, Sharon’s response was to decline because, “What’s... Read more »
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    26 mins
  • Episode 263: Margaret Mizushima

    Episode 263: Margaret Mizushima
    Oct 7 2024
    In Gathering Mist, the ninth installment in Margaret Mizushima’s engaging series featuring Deputy Mattie Wray and her K-9 partner, Robo, both Mattie and Robo find themselves seconded from the Colorado Rockies to a search-and-rescue operation in the forests of Washington State’s Olympic peninsula. A nine-year-old boy—the son of a movie star—is missing from a remote... Read more »
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    32 mins
  • Episode 262: Andrew Bridgeman

    Episode 262: Andrew Bridgeman
    Sep 24 2024
    At the beginning of Fortunate Son, Andrew Bridgeman’s debut thriller, Ben Danvers thinks his biggest challenge is giving a presentation to the executives at his company. Then he finds he isn’t who he grew up thinking he was—and people want to kill him
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    32 mins
  • Episode 261: Taylor Moore

    Episode 261: Taylor Moore
    Sep 16 2024
    There’s a blizzard on its way—and not just the snow and ice kind—in Cold Trail, the fourth installment in Taylor Moore’s series featuring Garrett Kohl. Someone is blowing up natural gas facilities and it may—or may not—have something to do with the ecological demonstrators who have shown up. Oh, and environmental activists aren’t the only... Read more »
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    31 mins
  • Episode 260: Nicholas Meyer and Les Klinger

    Episode 260: Nicholas Meyer and Les Klinger
    Aug 26 2024
    Renowned Sherlockian, Les Klinger discusses Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell, with Nicholas Meyer, his sixth”edit” of a heretofore undiscovered manuscript by John H. Watson M.D. The stakes are always high, but especially so in tracking down the Zimmerman telegram. Should it not be intercepted the consequences could be nothing less than Great Britain’s... Read more »
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    41 mins
  • Episode 259: Karin Slaughter

    Episode 259: Karin Slaughter
    Aug 19 2024
    Everyone needs more Will Trent in their lives. In This Is Why We Lied, Karin Slaughter’s 12th Will Trent mystery, Will and his bride Sara Linton are off on their honeymoon at the off-the-grid McAlpine Lodge. It’s an idyllic setting—until the screams start when the manager of the lodge is brutally murdered
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    24 mins