On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Tina Hodgkinson about her book "Agatha Christie's London: A Historical Guide to the Queen of Crime's Capital"

London had a special place in Agatha Christie's heart. In her childhood, she would visit the capital to stay with her Auntie Grannie; as an adult, she owned several homes in the city. A reoccurring location in her stories, London is where Poirot and Hastings, and Tommy and Tuppence reside, and even Miss Marple cannot resist a trip up to town to shop in its department stores.

Avoid red herrings, examine the clues to discover several of her former homes, use your little grey cells to detect where she worked during the Second World War, and probe where the former 'Detection Club' met. Gather the evidence to reveal the fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other locations that she and her characters frequented.

On completion of your investigation, your denouement will reveal the final twist: just how important London was to Agatha and her stories.

On this special Tuesday episode, V chats with Carol Pouliot about her book "Murder at the Moulin Rouge: A Blackwell & Watson Time-Travel Mystery"

Paris, 1895. When a cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge falls to her death from the top of one of Montmartre’s highest staircases, the police dismiss it as an accident. But, Madeleine was one of Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite models, and the artist is certain she was murdered. Enter Depression-era detective Steven Blackwell and 21st-century journalist Olivia Watson who travel back in time to Paris to hunt down the killer. Before long, they learn that a second dancer—a ballerina and favorite model of painter Edgar Degas—has died. Two dancers dead in two weeks. Two artists grieving. Is the killer targeting young dancers, or, does this case involve the enigmatic Paris art world?

From the moment Steven and Olivia arrive, Steven is out of his element. The small-town cop has no idea what techniques the French police use in 1895. Worse, he has no official status to investigate murder in one of the world’s largest cities. The sleuths soon discover disturbing secrets at the Paris Ballet. And when Olivia insists on going undercover to visit a suspect’s house alone, Steven fears he’s made the biggest mistake of his life.

Travel back in time with Steven and Olivia, as they enter the back-stabbing world of dance in one of the world’s greatest cities. Murder at the Moulin Rouge is their most daring and dangerous case to date.

On this special Monday episode V chats with Peter Clenott about his book "The Murder Investigation of Adolf Hitler: A Munich Mystery"

It is 1931. Adolf Hitler is less than two years away from becoming the dictator of Germany. But nothing is certain. He is walking a political tightrope. He is maneuvering to court the German upper class, while trying not to disavow the violence of his Stormtroopers. Then, in September of that year, his niece, twenty-two-year-old Geli Raubal, is found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest in her locked bedroom in Hitler’s flat. Is it suicide, as Hitler claims, or is it something more sinister?

Avi Kreisler is a young Munich detective called to the scene on Prinzregentenplatz 16 while investigating the death of another young woman who happened to be a friend of Geli Raubal. It is hard to be an idealist in Munich, 1931, harder still to be Jewish.

Anni Leeuwenberg is a red-headed, six-foot-tall member of the German Communist Party and one of Kreisler’s love interests. He has two. Charlotte ‘Lotte’ Leinsdorf, unlike Anni, is born into a wealthy German family whose parents are willing to marry her off to any important Nazi official. Together with Kreisler, they enter the maelstrom of a Munich spiraling out of control.

Anni’s boss, Oskar Waldmann, is the publisher of Der Weg, a Communist newspaper. Max Glaser is a prosecutor bent on bringing Hitler to trial. Both enlist Kreisler in the effort to get to the truth at all costs. And what is that cost? Everything. For Germany. For Hitler. For the world. And for Avi, Anni, and Lotte.