My podcast about Crime and Suspense fiction.
This week on Crime Wave: Bruce Conord’s COME AND GET HER is a heart-pounding thriller that thrusts former Special Forces operative Jesse Arroyo back into a world of violence when his teenage daughter vanishes in Mexico, pulling him into the deadly shadows of cartel territory. With time running out and Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Michael Cooper’s The Rabbi’s Knight is a richly detailed historical novel set in 1290, as war-weary Knight Templar Jonathan St. Clair joins forces with Rabbi Samuel of Baghdad to decipher a cryptic ancient scroll linked to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Shifting alliances, pursuit by enemies, and Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Tracy Clark’s EDGE plunges Chicago Police Detective Harriet Foster into the gritty hunt for “Edge,” a deadly new opioid that’s claiming lives across the city. As overdose deaths rise and leads remain scarce, Harri and her team race against the clock—and also against personal stakes Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In James Grippando’s stunning new legal thriller, THE RIGHT TO REMAIN, Miami criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on the defense of Elliott Stafford, a murder suspect who refuses to speak to anyone—not even his own attorney. Swyteck has no facts and no defense. As pressure Read more…
This week Welcome to 2026 on Crime Wave: I have a real treat to start the new year! Ross Montgomery, the multi-award-winning children’s author has written an amazing locked room adult mystery, MURDER AT WORLD’S END. Imagine this: It’s 1910. Halley’s comet streaks toward the earth, causing fears of an Read more…
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…
This week on Crime Wave: In Michael Sears’ LOVE THE STRANGER, Queens attorney Ted Molloy finds himself caught between profit-driven foreclosures and the grassroots fight to stop a massive development that threatens to uproot immigrant communities trying to build a better life. But when his activist girlfriend Kenzie Zielinski becomes 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…