My podcast about Crime and Suspense fiction.
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…
This week on Crime Wave: Cath Little—34, cautious, and firmly rooted in Buffalo—discovers two tickets to a “Murder Week” getaway in the England’s idyllic Peak District in her late mother’s belongings. Because they’d been estranged for years, she’s stunned to learn the tickets were for the two of them. Hoping Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In A Mother Always Knows, Sarah Strohmeyer unravels a gripping thriller about identity, memory, and long-buried secrets. Stella O’Neill has spent years hiding from her past in the Vermont cult where her mother was murdered. But when a true-crime podcast brings her story back into Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In THE MEDUSA PROTOCOL, Rob Hart’s pulse-pounding sequel to ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS, reformed assassin Astrid is kidnapped and imprisoned on a remote island black-site. Her disappearance rocks her 12-step group. Did she relapse? Was she murdered? Astrid manages to send a coded message that sends her Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In THE DEEPEST FAKE, Daniel Kalla delivers a razor-sharp thriller where deepfake technology turns one man’s reality inside out. Tech CEO Liam Hirsch is reeling from a fatal diagnosis, a crumbling marriage, and sabotage at his AI firm—until he uncovers shocking clues that his illness Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: My guest is Carmen Amato, author of the Emilia Cruz series. In BARRACUDA BAY, the latest addition, Detective Emilia Cruz — Acapulco’s first female homicide cop — uncovers the body of the mayor’s sister in a run-down property linked to a covert anti–drug operation. As Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: AMBUSH by Colleen Coble grabs you from the first page with a haunted past, a smoldering second-chance romance, and a wildlife refuge teeming with danger. Paradise Alden, a veterinarian, returns to her hometown to work at a wildlife refuge and heal from past trauma—including her Read more…