Crime and Wine: Novelist Chats with Pamela Fagan Hutchins

In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes an emotionally charged domestic suspense novel about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. And pregnant. A search for the truth. A lifetime of lies. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off...

Just when Dane thought they would marry, Shana's gone... After years of trying to resist their love affair, PI partners Dane & Shana are ready to tie the knot. But their visit to Shana's home in Australia goes terribly wrong when old enemies track her down. Dane & Shana travel to Australia so that Dane can meet her family, but they land in a minefield of problems. Shana's mother is being u...

On a cold February morning in 1967, Sheriff Coleman Grundy finds Betty Lou Mundy dead in her front yard and her husband on the porch with the gun that killed her. It looks like a classic case of revenge on a cheating wife. Until the next murder. And the next. As Cole desperately searches for leads, he’s forced to come to grips with his own wife’s unsolved murder three years earlier, and in the pro...

From the bestselling author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls comes a riveting novel about a mother and daughter separated by grief, secrets, and a conspiracy that threatens to destroy their lives. If there’s a healthy way to grieve, Erin Gaines hasn’t found it. After her husband’s sudden death, the runaway success of the tech company they built with their best friends has become overwhelming. Her...

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah lives in Junction, a tiny town of seven Mormon families scattered along the floor of a canyon, and she earns h...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife--and the drone belongs...

A young woman haunted by a family tragedy is caught up in a dangerous web of lies and deception involving a secret society in this highly charged, addictive psychological thriller that combines the dishy gamesmanship of Gossip Girl with the murky atmosphere of The Secret History. One summer day, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Alistair Calloway, vanished from the fam...

When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Temple's ongoing troubles: a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of th...

Judith Lucci is a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Best Selling author who writes what she knows.... Hospitals, Medicine, Crime and Art. She adds suspense along with well-constructed plots, vivid descriptions and memorable characters. Very few readers can put down her medical and crime thriller novels once they start reading them. Ms. Lucci is a Gold Medal Winner for Best Sleuth 2017 for Dr. Dude, t...

Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense. SOMEONE IS WATCHING Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life, and her sister was never heard from again. But all this time, someone's been waiting patiently to finish...

Sheriff Joanna Brady’s best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer in this chilling tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance. This time Sheriff Joanna Brady may expect to see her maternity leave through to completion, but the world...

KRISTINA MCMORRIS is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and the recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, as well as a nomination for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, RWA's RITA Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. Inspired by true personal and historical accounts, her works of fiction have been published by Kensington Books, Penguin Random...

USA Today bestselling author Wendy Wax is heralded for her contemporary women's fiction exploring friendship, loyalty, self-discovery and the seemingly insurmountable challenges life sometimes presents. Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, Wendy grew up on St. Pete Beach within spitting distance of the Gulf of Mexico. Appropriately enough, Wendy attended Sunshine Elementary School where recess and art...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lived in the area until she was nineteen. Then she became a nomadic gypsy, living in five cities, four states and ten houses over the course of ten years before she moved back to her roots. She speaks English and smattering of Spanish and Chinese which she learned through an intensive Nick Jr....

Welcome to NYT-bestseller Craig Johnson and DEPTH OF WINTER, his upcoming Longmire release, live from the Occidental Saloon in Buffalo, WY (aka "Durant" in his Longmire novels). Prefer video? FB live: www.facebook.com/pamela.hutchins/…0155847675408233 Video: youtu.be/8L0lk9N1HRg We talk about his wonderful female characters as well as what it's like to live in a town of 25 people, have an insanely...

For NYT bestselling author Robert Dugoni and A STEEP PRICE on Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins, we're pulling out the good stuff: the 2014 Harrison Hill from Washington's DeLille Cellars. Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tr...

Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins welcomes #1 NYT bestselling author Susan Mallery and WHEN WE FOUND HOME. Susan writes books about the relationships that define women's lives—romance, friendship, family. With compassion and humor, Susan keenly observes how people think and feel, in stories that take readers on an emotional journey. Sometimes heartbreaking, often funny, and...

For 2x-Edgar Winner Lori Roy and THE DISAPPEARING, Wine Women & Writing Radio is tipping back a good Woodford Whiskey in honor of one of her favorite authors, Pat Conroy. In THE DISAPPEARING, Lori spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away. THE DISAPPEARING questions the endurance of family bonds, the dangers of dark rumors and small t...

Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins welcomes international bestseller Claire Cameron and the haunting, suspenseful, and profoundly moving novel THE LAST NEANDERTHAL which asks us to reconsider all we think we know about what it means to be human. If you prefer the video version, you can watch it here: youtu.be/Yd2vPXR1NbI . Forty thousand years in the past, the last family of...

As a journalist, Christina Hoag had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas and phone tapped in Venezuela, was suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, and posed as a nun to get inside a Caracas jail. She's interviewed gang members, bank robbers, gunmen, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents,...

Elena Hartwell was born in Bogota, Colombia, while her parents were in the Peace Corps. Her first word was "cuidado." At the age of nine months, she told two men carrying a heavy table to be careful in their native tongue. She's been telling people what to do ever since. After almost twenty years in the theater, Elena turned her playwriting skills to novels About Three Strikes, You're Dead: Privat...

Linda Rae is one of the architects behind reader/author getaway experience, Wild Deadwood Reads, which in turn led to the spin off WILD DEADWOOD TALES ANTHOLOGY, from bestselling Wild Deadwood Reads authors, benefitting Western Sports Foundation. Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins is serving Calamity Jane red table wine from Black Hills' Prairie Berry Winery. "Calamity Jane...

Mary Alice Monroe and BEACH HOUSE REUNION have inspired us to pour Magnolia from Deep Water Vineyard in South Carolina for this episode of Wine Women & Writing. Magnolia is a sweet white that's like kicking your shoes off and enjoying an endless summer. It pairs well with the BEACH HOUSE REUNION, a novel beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight; an illuminating tale of new beginnings, re...

In honor of C.C. Hunter and THIS HEART OF MINE, Wine Women & Writing Radio is serving up a Lewis Wines 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo from Texas's Newsom Vineyards. NYT-bestseller C.C.—aka Christie Craig—calls this haunting, poignant novel "the book of her heart." C.C. grew up in Alabama, where she caught lightning bugs, ran barefoot, and regularly rescued potential princes, in the form o...

Like a little supernatural and righting of social injustice with your home renovation mystery? USA Today bestseller Eva Pohler'S got you covered. Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins on Wine Women & Writing Radio for this chat with Eva about mysteries, Greek mythology, basing characters on friends, and much more. Catch Eva's Mystery House Series for more. Follow Pamela at pamelafaganhtuchins.com for mor...