This week Welcome to 2026 on Crime Wave: I have a real treat to start the new year! Ross Montgomery, the multi-award-winning children’s author has written an amazing locked room adult mystery, MURDER AT WORLD’S END. Imagine this: It’s 1910. Halley’s comet streaks toward the earth, causing fears of an Read more…
Woke up to this . . . couldn’t have happened on a better day to get me out of the doldrums! Thank you Ed Ridgley for sharing your thoughts about “Hoodwinked”, John Connor for publishing the story, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society for being the space that makes these Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In Michael Sears’ LOVE THE STRANGER, Queens attorney Ted Molloy finds himself caught between profit-driven foreclosures and the grassroots fight to stop a massive development that threatens to uproot immigrant communities trying to build a better life. But when his activist girlfriend Kenzie Zielinski becomes Read more…
This week on Crime Wave: In Emily Ross’ fascinating new novel, SWALLOWTAIL, Detective Samantha Star is forced to confront her long-buried past when, twenty years after her own abduction, a brutal murder rocks her hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. The killing—eerily marked with a blue butterfly—echoes the work of a serial Read more…
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…