Episode 34: Thomas Perry

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Jane Whitefield is back in A String of Beads, the latest installment in the Edgar Award winning author’s series about the woman who helps people disappear   Find out more about Tom and his novels at his website. Photo of Thomas Perry ©Jo Perry

Episode 33: Christopher Fowler

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A special Christmas edition with the author of Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart, the most recent addition to the unique series of procedurals   Photo of Christopher Fowler © En Route Photography    

Episode 32: Val McDermid

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The hunt for the identity of the skeleton of the title of The Skeleton Road, Val McDermid’s newest stand-alone novel, takes readers through both time and geography: from the ruins of a Victorian building in Edinburgh and Radcliffe Camera in Oxford to Zagreb, Croatia; from a contemporary United Kingdom to the bloody Balkan war of… Read more »

Episode 31: Sebastian Rotella

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In The Convert’s Song, Sebastian Rotella picks up the story of Valentín Pescatore, first introduced in Triple Crossing     With his time patrolling The Line, as the border between San Diego and Tijuana is known, now in the past, ProPublica.com’s award-winning investigative journalist Sebastian Rotella’s Pescatore has relocated to Buenos Aires and joined forces… Read more »

Episode 30: Steph Cha

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Private investigator Juniper Song returns in Beware, Beware, Steph Cha’s second mystery novel       Drugs, celebrities, artists and murder collide in Los Angeles’ neighborhoods from Hollywood and Beverly Hills to Koreatown in Steph Cha’s latest novel. Photo of Steph Cha ©Susie Cha

Episode 29: Craig Robertson

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Scottish crime writer Robertson takes a break from the mean streets of Glasgow—the site of his series—for The Last Refuge, his stand alone mystery that takes place in the Faroe Islands     Although Scotland has no shortage of remote islands battered by lashing seas, Craig Robertson sets his latest in the Faroes, hundreds of… Read more »

The Mysterious Scent of Selene in Robert Olen Butler’s “The Star of Istanbul”

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Just what was that perfume—described as a combination of fresh mown hay, musk and lavender—Selene Bourgani wore that so captured Christopher Marlowe Cobb when he met her on the Lusitania? We asked Denise Hamilton, award-winning mystery writer and perfumista   This is how Robert Olen Butler describes the scent that so intrigued Kit Cobb, “Nothing… Read more »

We Break for Bouchercon!

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When it comes to writers of mysteries and thrillers, Bouchercon is an embarrassment of riches   This week Speaking of Mysteries is stepping back from the microphone and traveling 35 miles or so south to Long Beach, CA to join fellow fans of the genre at Bouchercon 2014: Murder at the Beach. Which means that… Read more »

Episode 28: Tom Nolan

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According to the critic of mysteries and thrillers for The Wall Street Journal, we are in a Golden Age of crime fiction                 Who better to discuss the state of mysteries and thrillers than a critic who specializes in the genre? The topics Tom discusses run the gamut:… Read more »

Episode 27: John Lawton

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Sweet Sunday, John Lawton’s newly published stand alone novel, is a mystery wrapped inside of an odyssey that jumps through time and geography, starting and ending in New York City in the late ’60s   Photo of John Lawton ©Nick Lockett