Episode 127: Joe Ide

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Righteous, Joe Ide’s second crime fiction novel, continues the story of Isiah Quintabe that Joe began in IQ, which just won the Macavity Award for best debut novel at this year’s Bouchercon. This time Isiah is pursuing two investigations: one into the death of his beloved older brother Marcus and the second into saving his brother’s former fiancee’s half-sister—who happens to be an inveterate gambler—from the gangs who are bent on collecting from her

 

 

Photo of Joe Ide ©Craig Takahashi

 

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Episode 126: Diane B. Saxton

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A private island in Long Island Sound, attached to the Connecticut mainland by a bridge, is the setting for Diane B. Saxton’s Peregrine Island, a novel of psychological suspense about the three generations of women who live there—Winter Peregrine, the owner; Elsie, Winter’s prodigal daughter; and Peda, Elsie’s child—and the painting that holds secrets that can change everything

 

 

 

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Episode 124: Sheena Kamal

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As much as Nora Watts, the protagonist in The Lost Ones, Sheena Kamal’s debut crime fiction novel, might want the past to stay in the past, it doesn’t. And PI Nora Watts’ search for the daughter she put up for adoption will take her into some very dark corners of her memory as her hunt takes her from rainy Vancouver and the snowy mountains to the coastal islands of British Columbia

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Episode 123: T. Jefferson Parker

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In The Room of White Fire, T. Jefferson Parker’s first book of a new series, private investigator Roland Ford is hired by Arcadia, an exclusive mental health facility, to find a patient who has escaped. But finding that patient is going to mean traveling through some of the darkest spaces imaginable left over from the war in Iraq

 

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Episode 122: Rachel Howzell Hall

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In City of Saviors, LAPD Detective Sergeant Elouise “Lou” Norton—the protagonist in Rachel Howzell Hall’s series—is broken, both physically and emotionally. Even so, people are still being murdered and Lou’s job is finding and arresting the killers

 

 

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Episode 120: Glen Erik Hamilton

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Van Shaw, the protagonist of Every Day Above Ground by Glen Erik Hamilton, is conflicted. He has the perfect skillset—as well as the family tradition—for being a successful career criminal. But Van is just not sure breaking the law for a living is right for him…

 

 

Right now, though, Van doesn’t have the time to contemplate the philosophical, existential questions of his work. Lives are on the line and it’s up to him to save them

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Episode 119: Karen Dionne

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Helena, the protagonist of The Marsh King’s Daughter, Karen Dionne’s recently published suspense novel, is the daughter of a brutal sociopath and the woman he kidnapped and raped. And the story just gets darker from there

 

 

Photo of Karen Dionne ©Robert Bruce Photography

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