Billy Boyle is back in Blue Madonna, the latest installment in James R. Benn’s series of World War II mysteries Billy goes to France on D-Day, but he’s not part of the invasion on the beaches of Normandy. His assignment is no less dangerous though and, as usual, the stakes are high. Photo of James… Read more »
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Episode 95: Reed Farrel Coleman
In Robert B. Parker’s Debt to Pay, it’s back to Paradise to catch up with Jesse Stone, a man so buttoned up the only thing he wears on his sleeve is his sleeve, according to author Reed Farrel Coleman Reed and Leslie Klinger also talk about how Robert B. Parker really felt about Tom… Read more »
Episode 92: Mark Billingham
Die of Shame, Mark Billingham’s recently published stand-alone mystery novel is a tale of lies, drugs, recovery, therapy—and murder Photo of Mark Billingham ©Charlie Hopkinson
Episode 91: Martin Walker
For Fatal Pursuit, Martin Walker’s Inspector Bruno had to channel his inner car guy. It was a wild ride for Bruno, both literally and figuratively Photo of Martin Walker ©Klaus Einwanger
Episode 90: Cara Black
Because it’s a prequel, Murder on the Quai—the sixteenth installment in Cara Black’s series of mysteries—is the perfect place to meet her protagonist, Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc Cara is undertaking a marathon book tour in support of Murder on the Quai—as well as the other 15 Aimee Leduc novels—with stops from Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San… Read more »
Episode 89: R. J. Koreto
Title or no title, it isn’t easy being an independent woman in Edwardian England as Lady Frances Ffolkes, the protagonist of R.J. Koreto’s debut mystery, Death on the Sapphire, finds out
Episode 87: Steve Hamilton
In The Second Life of Nick Mason, Steve Hamilton introduces a character who’s a good man in a bad situation. Yes, he may be in prison for a crime he did commit, but who wouldn’t make a deal with the devil to get out from under a 25 year sentence? Even if there’s a price… Read more »
Episode 86: Camille Perri
In The Assistants, Camille Perri’s protagonist (protagonista?) Tina Fontana learns first hand the lessons of Sir Walter Scott’s quote “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” Photo of Camille Perri ©Ash Barhamand
Episode 83: T. Jefferson Parker
No one writes crazy quite like T. Jefferson Parker. Not teeth-gnashing, over-the-top-bad-guy-psycho-killer crazy, but crazy on a Biblical, mythical scale, the crazy of obsession and families with conflicts that span generations. And so it is in Crazy Blood, T. Jefferson Parker’s latest, a dark noir tale set in the world of blinding white snow Photo… Read more »
Episode 81: Trudy Nan Boyce
Out of the Blues, Trudy Nan Boyce’s debut police procedural, hits all the right notes as her protagonist, Sarah Alt—AKA Salt—reports for duty as Atlanta’s newest homicide detective. It’s music, the blues in particular, that brings a very cold case to life for Salt Photo of Trudy Nan Boyce ©Viki Hoang Timian
