My podcast about Crime and Suspense fiction.
This week on Crime Wave: Katherine Reay’s THE ENGLISH MASTERPIECE opens with an exhibit at the Tate Modern honoring the recently deceased Picasso. Lily, a young gallery assistant, impulsively blurts, “That’s a forgery” about a painting on display. That one comment puts not only her own career at risk but Read more…
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…