My podcast about Crime and Suspense fiction.
This week on Crime Wave: It’s the Murdle Man himself! G.T. (Greg) Karber, author of the bestselling Murdle puzzle books, shares his insight into the puzzle universe, how his logic puzzles fit in, and how he creates them. With five Murdle books out (and more coming this year!) Greg knows Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Nick Kolakowski and WHERE THE BONES LIE. Dash Fuller is a cynical Hollywood fixer, burnt out after years of making the film industry’s worst secrets disappear. Madeline Ironwood is the daughter a notorious smuggler and murderer who vanished twenty years ago. When her father’s skeleton Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Killer Nashville’s 20th Anniversary! Clay Stafford talks about what inspired him to start Killer Nashville back in 2006 and dishes on his favorite parts about the conference these days. He also speaks eloquently about the value of diversity and his joy in helping writers reach Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Bonnie Kistler joins me to talk about her Edgar-nominated psychological thriller, SHELL GAMES. Julie Hoffman’s wealthy mother, Kate Sawyer, might be the victim of an elaborate con or might be losing her mind. Kate says her new husband, Charlie, confessed to a notorious unsolved crime; Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Seraphina Nova Glass weaves yet another tantalizing tale of suspicion, murder, and revenge in NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE. Shelby and Mackenzie are long-time friends. One night both their lives change forever—when Shelby almost dies in a violent attack and Mack’s husband vanishes. As the quiet Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Jacqueline Faber joins me to talk about her debut novel, THE DEPARTMENT. On the surface, it’s an elegant and straightforward mystery about Lucia, a reckless college girl who goes missing, and Neil, the philosophy professor who becomes obsessed with finding her. At its core, however, Read more…
A BONUS week-end edition of Crime Wave: Scott Turow talks about life, writing, and PRESUMED GUILTY, the long-anticipated third thriller in his Rusty Sabich series. Rusty comes out of retirement to defend his soon-to-be stepson, the lead suspect in the death of a young woman from a prominent family with Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: We’re celebrating the launch of Carter Wilson’s TELL ME WHAT YOU DID. On Poe Webb’s true-crime podcast, you can anonymously confess to crimes you’ve committed. When one guest claims to have murdered Poe’s mother years earlier, Poe knows his man can’t be telling the truth, Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Author Alex Hay is your pitch-perfect guide as you journey back to 1898 with THE QUEEN OF FIVES. Quinn le Blanc, London’s most talented con woman, has five days to pull off her most ambitious plot yet: trap a highly eligible duke into marriage and Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: It’s Joseph Finder! Finder’s new thriller, THE OLIGARCH’S DAUGHTER, debuts January 28—and what a thrill-ride it is. When Paul Brightman falls in love with a Russian oligarch’s daughter, his life gets brutally upended. On the run, living under a false name, and pursued by Russian Read more…