This week on Crime Wave: MYOPIC DUPLICITY, edited by Jeff Circle, gathers a sharp and unsettling range of short fiction that probes the quiet tension between what we want and what we’re willing to do to get it. These stories don’t offer easy answers—they linger in the gray zones, where 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: 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…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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…