Dark and Stormy Book Club

Paul Haynes is a Los Angeles-based writer. Known as "The Kid" in Michelle McNamara's I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, Paul worked closely with Michelle as her researcher and investigative partner, and helped finish the book after her death. Originally from South Florida, Paul's work with Michelle was the culmination of a decadelong obsession with unsolved serial cases, and the Golden State Killer in part...

We interview Hannah Dennison. British born, Hannah originally moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. She has been an obituary reporter, antique dealer, private jet flight attendant and Hollywood story analyst. For many years Hannah taught mystery writing workshops at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program in Los Angeles, California. She has served on numerous judging committees for Mystery Wri...

We interview David Reichenbaugh and discuss his book. October 2, 2002. A bullet pierced the window of a crafts store in Maryland, just missing the cashier. But other bullets hit their targets. In Pursuit follows the hunt for the Beltway snipers during the twenty-three-day shooting spree that terrorized Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. David Reichenbaugh—the criminal intelligence o...

In our next installment of In Agatha's Footsteps we interview Anne Hillerman and talk about her latest“ Book the Tale Teller Continuing a Legacy The Tale Teller merges parallel mysteries When Ann took over the series that made her father, Tony, famous, she gave voice to the female characters in the series, bring­ing them into the mainstream narrative without taking anything away from the male char...

We interview award-winning author John DeDakis who is a former CNN Senior Copy Editor for the Emmy and Peabody-Award winning news program "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis (pronounced deh-DAY-kiss) is the author of four mystery/suspense novels -- Fast Track, Bluff, Troubled Water, and Bullet in the Chamber. The novels provide a behind-the-scenes look at real-world journalism. We disc...

We go from one end of the mystery genre to the other. First we interview Lea Wait USA Today best-selling author and speaker who writes the Mainely Needlepoint mystery series, the Shadows Antique Print mystery series, and the Maine Murder Mystery series. We also talk about her new Post-Civil War Mystery "Justice & Mercy". Then we interview Pulitzer prize-winning author Edward Humes and discuss his...

In our last but surely not least episode of Agatha Nominees we interview Nancy J. Cohen Nominated for Best Nonfiction for Writing the Cozy Mystery (Orange Grove Press), Ben Guterson nominated for Best Children's Y/A Mystery for Winterhouse (Henry Holt), Shari Randall nominated for Best First Novel for Curses Boiled Again (St. Martin's) and Jane Ann Turzillo nominated for Best Nonfiction for Wicked...

Round four of our special Agatha Nominee interviews. Ellen Byron nominated for Best Contemporary Novel for Mardi Gras Murder (Crooked Lane Books), L.A. Chandlar nominated for Best Historical Novel for The Gold Pawn(Kensington), Bruce Robert Coffin nominated for Best Contemporary Novel for Beyond the Truth (Witness Impulse) and Dianne Freeman nominated for Best First Novel for A Lady's Guide to Eti...

Help us celebrate our PODIVERSARY! Find out who some of our favorite books and guest were over this past year. We also run the numbers and let you know what were the most listened to episodes.

Round three of our special Agatha Nominee Interviews. Cindy Callaghan nominated for Best Childrens Y/A for Potion Problems (Just Add Magic) (Aladdin), Annette Dashofy nominated for Best Contemporary Novel for Cry Wolf (Henery Press) and Aimee Hix Nominated for Best First Novel for What Doesn't Kill You (Midnight Ink)

Round two of our special Agatha Nominee interviews. Edith Maxwell nominated for Best Historical Novel for Turning the Tide (Midnight Ink), Margalit Fox nominated for Best Non-Fiction for Conan Doyle for the Defense (Random House) and Keenan Powell nominated for Best First Novel for Deadly Solution (Level Best Books)

The first in the series of interview with Agatha Award Nominees. Cynthia Surrisi, nominated for Best YA Novel , Edwin Hill, nominated for Best First Novel, and Laura Thompson, nominated for Best Non Fiction, were the first group we selected.

On this installment of "In Agatha's Footsteps" We feature an interview with Rhys Bowen who is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly Murphy Mysteries, and Constable Evans. She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys’s titles have received rave reviews around the globe. We discuss her new stand-alone novels "In Fair...

We first interview Wendy Tyson and talk about her latest Greenhouse Mystery "Rooted in Deceit" Wendy is a writer, lawyer, and former therapist whose background has inspired her mysteries and thrillers. Wendy writes three mystery series, the bestselling Greenhouse Mystery Series and the popular Allison Campbell Mystery Series (Henery Press), and the Delilah Percy Powers crime series (Down & Out Boo...

We feature an interview with Nicola Upson who is a British novelist, author of An Expert in Murder, and several other novels featuring a fictional version of Josephine Tey as the heroine and detective. The latest in the series will be released in April - "Sorry for the Dead" Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk in 1970 and has a bachelor's degree in English from Downing College, Cambridge.

On today's episode we highlighted two books. We reviewed "The Second Rider" by Alex Beer. It is a post World War I set in Vienna. Then we reviewed "Coma Dreams" by N. Lawrence Mann, a fantastical thriller with elements of addiction fiction.

We focus on two books this week the first is HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE by Kellye Garrett. Kellye's first novel, Hollywood Homicide, won Agatha, Anthony, Lefty and IPPY awards for best first novel. It was also nominated for Macavity and Barry awards. Hollywood Ending, her second book in the Detective by Day mystery series, was chosen a best mystery of 2018 by Suspense Magazine, Book Riot and CrimeReads, w...

We interview Peggy Townsend she is a longtime newspaper reporter who has won multiple state and national awards for her work. She has chased a serial killer through a graveyard at midnight, panhandled with street kids, and sat on a mountaintop with a woman who counted her riches in each morning's sunrise. We discuss the amazing 1st book in her Aloa Snow mystery series SEE HER RUN and her upcoming...

We have a packed episode with a revisit from one of our favorites Cathy Ace. We discuss her new stand-alone THE WRONG BOY. Cathy Ace is the author of the award-winning Cait Morgan Mysteries and the WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries. Now she’s turned to the darker side of Welsh crime fiction with The Wrong Boy. Next, we highlight Ian Andrew's Wright & Tran crime trilogy. Kara Wright and Tien Tran, co...

This episode features an interview with Andrew Shaffer who is a New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter whose books include the parody Fifty Shames of Earl Grey and the humorous survival guide How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters. His new book, the instant national bestseller Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery is now available wherever books are sold from Quirk...

Our next honoree of "In Agatha's Footsteps" is Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Her books have been top-3 bestsellers in the United States and number one bestsellers abroad. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon). Critics around the world have praised her novels as “Pulse-pounding fun” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “Scary and brilliant”...

Bookends #18 features an interview with Steven C. Levi. We discuss his book DEAD MEN DO COME BACK. Our book highlight this week is a 1920's small town mystery PAINT THE LIBRARIAN DEAD by Kenn Grimes.

We interview Brad Ricca and discuss his book-"Mrs. Holmes"it tells the incredible story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, and detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917. Grace was an amazing lawyer and travelling detective during a time when no women were practising in the legal profession. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and...

Part II of our catch up with the authors we interviewed this past year included- Alice Castle, T.G. Campbell, Hilder sif Thorarensen, Ellen Butler, Nick van der Leek, Cathy Ace, Dennis Palumbo and Desmond P. Ryan.

We take the time to catch up with the amazing authors we have had the pleasure of encountering this past year. Steven Axelrod, Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli, Lauren Carr, Jana DeLeon, Karen Ellis (Katia Lief), Thomas Fincham, Celina Grace, Jane Haseldine, Ed Ifkovic, Cynthia Kuhn, Alice Loweecey and Becky Masterman. Next week we will update the authors from our bookends episodes.