This week on Crime Wave: It’s our 100th episode and award-winning novelist Lou Berney returns with CROOKS, the story of the Mercurio crime family—Buddy, a low-level mob wise guy, his wife Lillian, a charming pickpocket, and their five children. CROOKS opens in 1960s Las Vegas and then spans decades and Read more…
To all my Mass/NH friends: There’s going to be an amazing Noir at the Bar at the Grog in Newburyport on Dec. 7th. Enjoy some great food — and a fun evening with some of your favorite writers! If you know you’re going to attend, they’re asking you to sign Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: THE CHINA GAMBIT by Jeffrey James Higgins hurtles readers into a razor-sharp geopolitical thriller where loyalty is perilous and truth is a weapon. When FBI Agent Nathan Burke uncovers evidence of a covert Chinese operation poised to upend global power, he’s thrust into a deadly Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In Emily Ross’ fascinating new novel, SWALLOWTAIL, Detective Samantha Star is forced to confront her long-buried past when, twenty years after her own abduction, a brutal murder rocks her hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. The killing—eerily marked with a blue butterfly—echoes the work of a serial Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS by Gareth Brown plunges us into a globe-trotting fantasy thriller where seemingly mundane items hide extraordinary power. When a clandestine group dedicated to guarding “unknowable objects” dispatches its newest member, Magda Sparks, to Hong Kong, she stumbles into a world Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: MYOPIC DUPLICITY, edited by Jeff Circle, gathers a sharp and unsettling range of short fiction that probes the quiet tension between what we want and what we’re willing to do to get it. These stories don’t offer easy answers—they linger in the gray zones, where Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Joel Dicker’s WILD ANIMAL begins with a dramatic heist in Geneva and gradually peels back layer after layer of deception to reveal a web of obsession, betrayal, and long buried secrets. Joel is a master of exploring the tension between reality and perception, and his Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In Tom Milani’s debut novel, Places That Are Gone, Bennett Wilder’s life feels small and predictable—until a chance encounter with Liz Messina, a hitchhiker with a troubled past, jolts him from his routine. Liz is on the run, with dangerous debts and a child to Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In Midnight Burning, Paul Levine brings together an unlikely team—Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and LAPD’s first Black female officer, Georgia Ann Robinson—to take on a deadly Nazi plot in 1937 Los Angeles. As fascist sympathizers scheme to assassinate Hollywood icons and spark insurrection, the trio Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In Claire Douglas’ THE WRONG SISTER, sisters Tasha and Alice couldn’t be more different—Tasha is a busy suburban mom, Alice a globe-trotting scientist. When Alice offers to swap lives for a week so Tasha can take a much-needed break, it seems like the perfect arrangement. Read more…