Dark and Stormy Book Club

WWAR for March 2023 Show Notes Part 1 The Agatha Awards are coming up at end end of April and our next few episodes will be interviews with several of the nominees for this year's awards. Therfore, we decided to devote our March WWAR episodes to books that have been nominated for awards this year. Joan Long is nominated for an Agatha for Best First Novel for “The Finalist” (Level Best Books) Five...

Mystery at Windswept Farm by Wendy Sand Eckel Show Notes We visited with Wendy Sand Eckel about her book Mystery at Windswept Farm (Level Best Books). This is the third book in theRosalie Hart Mystery Series, Rosalie's hard-earned organic farm certification is threatened by a toxic neighbor who is about to crop dust his winter wheat. When their impulsive farm hand decides to confront him, she find...

Jennifer Herrera Show Notes The Hunter by Jennifer Herrera published by G. P Putnam Sons 1/12/23 After reckless behavior costs NYPD detective Leigh O’Donnell her job and her marriage, she returns with her four-year-old daughter to her beautiful hometown of Copper Falls, Ohio. Leigh had stayed away for more than a decade—even though her brother and a trio of loving uncles still call it home—because...

Gary Edgington Show Notes On today's episode we had a delightful conversation with Gary Edgington, the author of “Outside The Wire” (not the science fiction film of the same name). It was publsihed by Koehler Press and was released in August of 2022. A retired LA counterterrorism cop and a fearless Army doctor risk everything, including their burgeoning romance, as they battle clandestine Iranian...

On today's episode, we interviewed author Ann Claire about her book Dead and Gondola (Bantam Books 11/22). It is the first in her Christie Bookshop Mystery series. . Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She’s recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family’s historic bookshop with her elder sister, Meg, and their beloved cat, Agatha. Perched in a Swiss-style hamlet...

On this episode, we had a lively interview with Gregg Hurwitz, the author of The Last Orphan, #8 in the Orphan X series by Gregg Hurwitz (Minotaur Books 2/14.23 Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the- bo...

Desmond Ryan Show Notes For almost thirty years, Desmond P. Ryan began every day of his working life with either a victim waiting in a hospital emergency room, or a call to a street corner or a blood-soaked room where someone had been left for dead. Murder, assaults on a level that defied humanity, sexual violations intended to demean, shame, and haunt the individuals who were no more than objects...

WWAR February Show Notes Part 1 In honor of Black History Month, we are featuring four books by Black authors. Tracey reported on Blacktop Wasteland by SA Crosby (Flatiron Books) A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi. Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in...

WWAR February Show Notes Part 1 In honor of Black History Month, we are featuring four books by Black authors. Tracey reported on Blacktop Wasteland by SA Crosby (Flatiron Books) A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi. Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in...

Dark and Stormy Takes On The Movies Show Notes On this episode of Dark and Stormy Book Club, we talked about a few of the new movies that we have enjoyed over the past few weeks. Each of these movies is currently available on Netflix. Misty reported on The Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery by Rian Johnson starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, and a host of quirky characters. Benoit Bl...

Claire Douglas Show Notes On today's episode we visit with Claire Douglas, the author of The Girls Who Disappeared Harper Collins (1/2023) A car accident. Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . . In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a ch...

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead Show Notes Mysterious Press July 2022 ON episode 242 and we are finally back after our holiday hiatus. We are fiinally reporting on the book Death and the Conjuror: A Locked Room Mystery by Tom Mead. We assigned this book back in September but have not been able to publish our findings until now. This a throwback locked room mystery set in 1936 London. Renowned p...

Anthony Horowitz Show Notes On episode 222, we visit with the wonderful author, Anthony Horowitz. We talked about his new James Bond book, “With a Mind to Kill” which was published by Harper on May 24. This is internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third and final James Bond novel, after “Forever and a Day.” It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who p...

We are taking a few weeks off to spend the holidays with our families. During this time, we will be replaying a few of our favorite episodes from this year. The first will be a recast of episode 210 and we visited with Joel Schwartz. He is an attorney and the author of “Bone Deep: Untangling the Twisted True Story of the Tragic Betsy Faria Murder Case.” He wrote the book with Charles Bosworth Jr....

WWAR for December Part 2 Show Notes On this episode of Dark and Stormy Book Club, we have the second part of our WWAR for December. Tracey reported on “The Christmas Scarf Murder” anthology by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day, and Peggy Ehrhart. (Kensington Cozies 9/22) They’re coziest of wintertime accessories...unless, of course, they become accessories to murder! USA Today bestselling author Carlen...

The Dark and Stormy Elves settled in for a long winters tale and shared what they read. The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries #2) by P.J. Fitzsimmons Published July 2022 by Indefensible Publishing Anty Boisjoly tackles the strange case of a war hero who visits his old friends on Christmas morning — after being murdered on Christmas Eve. In The Case of the Ghost of Chr...

The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Edited by Leslie S. Klinger Forward by Joe Hill Mysterious Press 10/18/22 Show Notes The definitive edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal tale of depraved murder and unrelenting horror, introduced by Joe Hill, annotated by Edgar-winner Leslie S. Klinger, & illustrated with over 100 color images There’s no question that The Strange Ca...

On today's episode we finish the WWAR for November that we started last week. Ann reported on the book “Cleopatra's Dagger” a historical novel by Carole Lawrence. It was published by Thomas & Mercer in April of 2022 Is New York, 1880. and Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city’s most popular newspaper. Then she and her friend find a woman’s body wrapped like a...

WWAR w/Misty Part 1 Show Notes On today's episode, we welcome the wonderful Misty Night, the newest member of our club. Misty lives in central Pennsylvania and has been writing for a long time. She has over 50 books published in several genres. She started out writing greeting cards and then went on to write children's books with little or no success. She began to write romance novels but soon gra...

A rebroadcast of an interview from July 2019. We are introducing Misty Simon as the 4th member of our book club and the episode is the first time we met Misty and interviewed her.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the absolutely unputdownable and chilling true-crime story of Stella Nickell—a mother and wife who did the unthinkable… and the unforgiveable. At 5.02 pm on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband Bru...

Liz Decker from Caprichos Books talks gift giving and digs deep for ideas. Never too early to start buying and what better way than ordering from an independent book store! Caprichos Books - a mobile bookshop now serving the Delmarva Peninsula and beyond - books@caprichosbooks.com 410-929-6081 Opening soon in Ocean Pines MD!

We do some down and dirty reviews A Margin for Murder- Lauren Elliott The Prison Minyan - Jonathan Stone The Falling Girls- Hayley Krircther Our Little World - Karen Winn All the Broken Girls - Linda Hurtado Bond

We ask our favorite detective Bruce Robert Coffin about his opinion of the accuracy of Police Procedurals. Bruce Robert Coffin is a retired police detective sergeant and bestselling author of the Detective Byron Mysteries. He lives and writes in Maine. He is currently working on several new projects. brucerobertcoffin.com

WE LOVE OUR PATRONS!!! Tame Prince has been with us from the beginning. She is a busy Doctor from Arizona who finds time to listen to all of our episodes. We asked Tame what she likes to read and she chose Charles Todd as her favorite author,