My podcast about Crime and Suspense fiction.
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…
This week on Crime Wave: The way we treat our planet is a crime—fifteen of them, in fact. The always entertaining Rob Lopresti joins me to talk about his new gig as editor of the great short story anthology, CRIMES AGAINST NATURE. Fifteen stories, written by some of today’s best Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Erik S. Meyers talks about the second outing in his Sally Witherspoon mystery series—Murder on the Mississippi. Reeling after discovering who murdered her best friend, Sally books a river cruise down the Mississippi to put that terrible time behind her and relax. Unfortunately, relaxation is Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Pip Drysdale joins me to talk about THE CLOSE-UP. Sparks fly when Zoe re-connects with her old boyfriend, Zach, a bartender who inspired her debut novel. Only problem: he’s now a big-time actor, and she’s still working at a flower shop while she tries to Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: Barbara Nickless wowed us all with her Sydney Parnell series, and I’m thrilled that she stopped by to talk about her brand-new (releasing Jan 1, 2025) stand-alone espionage thriller. It’s a real sea change for her. Centered around sisters Cassandra and Nadia Brenner, heirs to Read more…