FIRST CHAPTER FUN

First Chapter Fun – Episode 359 – THE LONG MARCH HOME by Tosca Lee & Marcus Brotherton Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of THE LONG MARCH HOME by Tosca Lee & Marcus Brotherton, which is available now! About THE LONG MARCH HOME: Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 358 – PERFECT SHOT by Steve Urszenyi Listen to internationally bestselling crime and rom-com author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages PERFECT SHOT by Steve Urszenyi, which is available now! About PERFECT SHOT: Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, she earned...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 357 – THESE STILL BLACK WATERS by Christina McDonald Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of THESE STILL BLACK WATERS by Christina McDonald, which is available now! About THESE STILL BLACK WATERS: After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summ...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 356 – KISSING KOSHER by Jean Meltzer Listen to internationally bestselling crime & rom-com author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of KISSING KOSHER by Jean Meltzer, which is available now! About KISSING KOSHER: Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photograph...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 355 – HAVE YOU SEEN HER by Catherine McKenzie Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of HAVE YOU SEEN HER by Catherine McKenzie, which is available now! About HAVE YOU SEEN HER: Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the re...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 354 – TWISTED by Maggie Giles Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages TWISTED by Maggie Giles, which is available now! About TWISTED: Detective Ryan Boone thought the simple jewelry heist was an open and shut case. That is until he discovers an unknown drug, and this minor crime he was investigating may be...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 353 – BROADWAY BUTTERFLY by Sara DiVello Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of BROADWAY BUTTERFLY by Sara DiVello, which is available now! About BROADWAY BUTTERFLY: Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 352 – BLOOD SISTERS by Vanessa Lillie Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of BLOOD SISTERS by Vanessa Lillie , which is available October 31st! About BLOOD SISTERS: There are secrets in the land. As an archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 351 – THE BAKER’S MAN by Jennifer Moorman Listen to award-winning, bestselling crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of THE BAKER’S MAN by Jennifer Moorman, which is available now! About THE BAKER’S MAN: Anna O’Brien inherited several gifts from her late Grandma Bea: culinary superpowers, a bakery in a charming Southern town, and a myst...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 350 – DEATH OF A DANCING QUEEN by Kimberly G. Giarratano   Listen to bestelling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of DEATH OF A DANCING QUEEN by Kimberly G. Giarratano, which is available now! About DEATH OF A DANCING QUEEN: After her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather’s private investigation firm and...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 349 – THE CHRISTMAS WAGER by Holly Cassidy (Hannah Mary McKinnon)   Listen to bestselling authors Hank Phillippi Ryan and Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of THE CHRISTMAS WAGER by Holly Cassidy (Hannah Mary McKinnon's rom-com pen name), which is available September 26, 2023! About THE CHRISTMAS WAGER: When LA-based real estate developer B...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 348 – SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE by Lyn Liao Butler   Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE by Lyn Liao Butler, which is available now! About SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE: Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance studio goes bankrupt. Her mother and beloved dog are gone the same year. Th...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 347 – AN HONEST MAN by Michael Kyorta Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of AN HONEST MAN by Michael Kyorta, which is available now! About AN HONEST MAN: Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive. After discovering seven men butchered aboard their yacht –...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 346 – AFTER THAT NIGHT by Karin Slaughter Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of AFTER THAT NIGHT by Karin Slaughter, which is available August 22nd! About AFTER THAT NIGHT: Will Trent and Sara Linton are back in an electrifying thriller featuring GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sa...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 345 – THE HOUSE OF EVE by Sadeqa Johnson Listen to award-winning, bestselling crime author ⁠⁠Hank Phillippi Ryan⁠⁠ read the description and opening pages of THE HOUSE OF EVE by Sadeqa Johnson, which is available now! About THE HOUSE OF EVE: 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of h...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 344 – THICKER THAN WATER by Megan Collins   Listen to award-winning, best-selling crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of THICKER THAN WATER by Megan Collins, which is available now. About THICKER THAN WATER: Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—i...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 343 – THE NIGHT IT ENDED by Katie Garner Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of THE NIGHT IT ENDED by Katie Garner, which is available now! About THE NIGHT IT ENDED: Finding the truth seems impossible when her own dark past has her seeing lies everywhere she looks… From the outside, criminal psychiatri...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 342 – A TWISTED LOVE STORY by Samantha Downing   Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of A TWISTED LOVE STORY by Samantha Downing, which is available July 18th! About A TWISTED LOVE STORY:  Wes and Ivy are madly in love. They've never felt anything like it. It's the type of romance people wr...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 341 – THE GIRLS ARE GOOD by Ilaria Bernadini Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of THE GIRLS ARE GOOD by Ilaria Bernadini, which is available now! About THE GIRLS ARE GOOD:  A DANGEROUS OBSESSION - Martina wants to be the best gymnast in the world. But so does everyone around her. A TOURNAMENT WITH A...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 340 – THE SENATOR’S WIFE by Liv Constantine   Listen to award-winning, bestselling crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of THE SENATOR’S WIFE by Liv Constantine , which is available now! About THE SENATOR’S WIFE: After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senato...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 339 – WHAT REMAINS by Wendy Walker Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of WHAT REMAINS by Wendy Walker, which is available June 13th! About WHAT REMAINS: Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has b...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 338 – THE RAVEN THIEF by Gigi Pandian Listen to internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of THE RAVEN THIEF by Gigi Pandian, which is available now! About THE RAVEN THIEF:   Tempest Raj returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more sinister than t...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 337 – THE DARLINGS by Hannah McKinnon Listen to bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon read the description and opening pages of THE DARLINGS by her American counterpart Hannah McKinnon, which is available now! About THE DARLINGS: On a secluded stretch of Cape Cod, a wedding is being planned at a beloved beach house—only for a long kept secret to emerge that hurtles bo...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 336 – THE REVENGE LIST by Hannah Mary McKinnon   Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of THE REVENGE LIST by Hannah Mary McKinnon, which is available May 23, 2023! About THE REVENGE LIST: The people in Frankie Morgan’s life say she’s angry. Emotionally stunted. Combative. But really, who can blame h...

First Chapter Fun – Episode 335 – BETWEEN TWO STRANGERS by Kate White Listen to bestselling, award-winning crime author Hank Phillippi Ryan read the description and opening pages of BETWEEN TWO STRANGERS by Kate White, which is available now. About BETWEEN TWO STRANGERS : A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a struggling artist named Skyler Moore who receives a bewilderingly large, life-c...