My podcast about Crime and Suspense fiction.
This week on Crime Wave: Listen to Bonnar get blown away by Laura Lippman’s razor-sharp insights into life, friendship, family, and craft. Laura and I were together to chat about her wonderful new mystery, MURDER TAKES A VACATION, starring Mrs. Muriel Blossom, a 68-year-old widow determined to see the world Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: As I told Stephen Eoannou when I introduced him, I was hooked with the first few lines of the jacket copy for his new mystery, AFTER PEARL. I can’t say it any better: “1942. War rages in Europe. Pearl Harbor still smolders. And alcoholic private Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: We dive into IT’S NOT EVEN PAST, Anna Scotti’s wonderful collection of short stories chronicling the journeys and changing identities of Lori, a Ph.D-candidate librarian who suddenly must enter the Federal Witness Protection Program. Hiding her intelligence and education, she accepts menial jobs that will Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Jenny Morris dishes about her buzzy debut novel, AN ETHICAL GUIDE TO MURDER. It’s full of unexpected twists, well-timed humor, and a propulsive plot. Thea enters a moral minefield when she discovers she can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Anthony Horowitz, just back from filming the PBS adaptation of MARBLE HALL MURDERS, joins me for an inside look at *writing* MARBLE HALL MURDERS, his captivating third mystery featuring editor Susan Ryeland who gets caught up in yet another crime: Three mysterious deaths. Multiple motives Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Tori Eldridge has a new book! A new series! Yay! KAUA‘I STORM launches a dynamite new leading lady. After ten years as a national park ranger in Oregon, Makalani Pahukula returns to Kaua‘i for her grandmother’s birthday. When she reaches the family homestead, she finds Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: It’s a dark and stormy night . . . on the first page of Rick Mofina’s new thriller, IF TWO ARE DEAD . . . and while Luke Conway is driving home—he hits something? Or someone? When he can’t find anyone, Luke leaves, deciding to Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Current events got you down? Here’s a great idea—pick up STEALING TIME, a smart, funny caper that will steal your heart. Tilia Klebenov Jacobs’ and Norman Birnbach’s time-travel jewelry heist is the story of Tori, a teen during the 2020 pandemic, whose parents are divorcing. Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Andrew Welsh-Huggins’ THE MAILMAN is a pulse-pounding thriller that starts with a bang and never lets up. THE MAILMAN is the first novel-length outing for Mercury Carter, star of several Welsh-Huggins short stories. Mercury is a freelance courier who prides himself on never missing a Read more…
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…