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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    Less than 1 minute
  • Episode 258: Tom Straw

    Episode 258: Tom Straw
    May 10 2024
    Tom Straw’s The Accidental Joe: The Top Secret Life of a Celebrity Chef, blends murder, mirth, high-stakes espionage, gastronomic highs and lows and killer locales for an appetizing thriller that launches a new series featuring peripatetic bad boy chef Sebastian Pike and his CIA handler Cammie Nova. Tasty, indeed Photo of Tom... Read more »
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    32 mins
  • Episode 257: Don Winslow

    Episode 257: Don Winslow
    Apr 3 2024
    Fans of Don Winslow are—understandably—in denial that City in Ruins is his final crime fiction novel. But if it’s true, if Don has put away the keyboard to devote himself to political activism, City in Ruins, the third and final installment of his Danny Ryan trilogy, just might prove that he saved the best for... Read more »
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    32 mins
  • Episode 256: Val McDermid

    Episode 256: Val McDermid
    Dec 11 2023
    In Past Lying, the seventh novel in Val McDermid’s series featuring Karen Pirie, the action—or restriction thereof—is in and about Edinburgh during lockdown in Spring 2020, as Karen and her team investigate whether or not a partial manuscript found in the papers of a recently deceased crime fiction writer is a roadmap to the disappearance... Read more »
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    30 mins
  • Episode 255: Tess Gerritsen

    Episode 255: Tess Gerritsen
    Oct 30 2023
    Crime fiction fans rejoice: with The Spy Coast, Tess Gerritsen launches a new series featuring retired CIA Maggie Bird and her fellow former intelligence officers, all of whom now reside in Purity, Maine. And, while members of the Martini Club—as the ex-spooks call themselves—may be retired from active duty, their combined skills are formidable. And... Read more »
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    22 mins
  • Episode 254: Rebecca Hanover

    Episode 254: Rebecca Hanover
    Oct 23 2023
    In The Last Applicant, Rebecca Hanover’s debut adult thriller, a parent desperate to secure her son’s admission to an exclusive Manhattan private school, in Rebecca’s words, “goes there” and stalks the school’s admissions director. To tell you anymore would spoil any one of the many twists and turns the story takes Photo... Read more »
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    27 mins
  • Episode 253: Lynn Hightower

    Episode 253: Lynn Hightower
    Aug 2 2023
    The stakes couldn’t be higher for Junie Lagarde, the protagonist in The Beautiful Risk, Lynn Hightower’s new thriller. Her dog Leo—who, as Junie’s hearing dog, is much more than a pet—survived the plane crash in the French Alps that killed her husband. Nothing will stop Junie from finding Leo and looking into the plane crash... Read more »
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    33 mins
  • Episode 252: Denise Mina

    Episode 252: Denise Mina
    Jul 31 2023
    In a case of Herculean wordsmithing, Denise Mina is scheduled to publish two novels on August 1, 2023: The Second Murderer, which continues the story of Raymond Chandler’s immortal Philip Marlowe; and Three Fires, the story of the late 15th century Florentine Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola—he of the original Bonfire of the Vanities—that has resonance... Read more »
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    39 mins