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
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Episode 26: Bradford Morrow
Murder, dismemberment, stalking and blackmail are all part of the journey The Forgers takes through the territory where love and books overlap. If the first five words of The Forgers—”They never found his hands.”—don’t intrigue you, you might want to check to see if you have a pulse. Photo of Bradford Morrow ©Jessamine… Read more »
Episode 25: Margaux Froley
The Anthony Award-nominated YA writer talks about Hero Complex, the second novel in the Keaton School series. Margaux’s main character, Devon Mackintosh, is a fish out of water at her boarding school, which gives her a unique perspective. Pretty handy when you’re trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious death school… Read more »
Author Reading 1: Robert Olen Butler
What better way to celebrate the publication day of The Empire of Night than listening to the author read chapter one! Signed first edition copies of The Empire of Night are available from MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP
Episode 24: Robert Olen Butler
In The Empire of Night, we pick up the story of Christopher Marlowe Cobb, who survived the sinking of the Lusitania, as he hunts down German sympathizers in the British aristocracy during the early months of World War One. The idea of Christoper “Kit” Cobb, grew out of “The One in White,” a… Read more »
Episode 23: James R. Benn
Billy Boyle is back in The Rest Is Silence, the ninth installment in the series of Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries. James. R. Benn first book, On Desperate Ground, took place during World War II, but was not a mystery. But one of the story’s secondary characters, police detective Billy Boyle, stayed… Read more »
Episode 22: Laurie R. King
The writer of the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series of mysteries talks to Leslie Klinger and Nancie Clare about projects past, present and future. Laurie talks about her next Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mystery, Dreaming Spies; the creative highs and lows of writing a series; Career Day, the stand alone thriller scheduled for publication in… Read more »
Episode 21: Matt Cook
In Sabotage, Matt Cook’s first thriller, a luxury cruise ship in the North Atlantic is paralyzed by an electromagnetic pulse, an enigmatic Stanford professor and founder of a high tech defense company disappears and a group of Stanford students of a variety of disciplines are the only ones who can save both—and the world—from Viking… Read more »
Episode 20: Nick Harkaway
The 2012 Kitschie Award Winner for Angelmaker, talks about his latest novel, Tigerman. Among many, many other things. As soon as the interview was over, I was madly Googling to bookmark as many of Nick Harkaway’s references as I could. In our conversation about the designation “literary thriller,” he discussed the stories of… Read more »
Episode 19: David Rosenfelt
A perfect interview for the waning Dog Days of summer, David Rosenfelt talks about his latest Andy Carpenter mystery Hounded, the ups and downs of writing and the redeeming quality of dogs. David Rosenfelt was so funny and self-deprecating in his interview. And he made some surprising revelations about his writing methodology. But… Read more »
