Dark and Stormy Book Club

Gothic Mystery Roundup The Vine Witch (The Vine Witch #1) by Luanne G. Smith Published October 1st 2019 by 47North A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France. For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help creat...

Welcome to the Mobtown Paranormal Research Team We interviewed Steve and Beth based out of Baltimore, Maryland. They investigate reported hauntings and ghost sightings throughout Maryland and southern Pennsylvania. If you think you have paranormal activity in your home or at work, you can contact us for information, support, or arrange for an investigation. Investigations and services are free of...

The Forger's Forgery by Clay G. Small Published April 20th 2021 When Art Mimics Life, Somebody’s Going to Get What’s Coming to Them Henry Lindon's flight across the north Atlantic was turbulent and sleepless. His plane has just touched down in Amsterdam, where he’s come to work as a visiting professor. Lindon is torn about leaving his troubled wife, Marylou, behind in Dallas, but relieved and exci...

The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean Published July 13th 2021 by Little, Brown and Company Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what...

An interview with Harry Carpenter, Coordinator for the Fright Reads Book Convention to be held on October 2, 2021

Cold Case Story is based on the brutal murder of a housewife in the Denver suburbs in 1973. A college student back then, Stephanie Kane was more than a witness to this terrible crime. For nearly thirty years, she remained silent. Then, in 2001, she tried to exorcise the crime by fictionalizing it in a mystery novel called Quiet Time. But instead of laying the murder to rest, Quiet Time brought it...

Recast of an interview with Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera Stanhope, the Shetland and the Two Rivers Mystery series.

Recast of an interview with Bonnie MacBird, author of the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "The Devil's Due" from March of last year

Memorium episode and recast of episode 65 featuring an interview with Caroline and Charles Todd

Death of a Dispatcher (A Becky and Rufus Cross-Country Mystery #1) by Sheryl Ickes Published March 25th 2021 by Independently Published Becky and Rufus Bridgewater are a cross country trucking team that enjoy seeing the country as they work. Shortly after returning to their company in Tennessee because of a merger, Becky finds a much hated dispatcher dead and quickly becomes the prime suspect. Cle...

One Got Away - Nikki Griffin #2 by S.A. Lelchuk Published April 13th 2021 by Flatiron Books Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn’t running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco families has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man. Nikki isn’t a fan of men who hurt women. H...

Paranormal Mystery Boooo ks we love A Charming Deception (Magical Cures Mystery #13) by Tonya Kappes Published February 25th 2020 Welcome to Whispering Fall where magic and mystery collide! Bubble... Bubble... June Heal and Oscar Park are beyond thrilled with the upcoming arrival of their baby. Cures and Trouble... June's pregnancy is turning out to more at risk than anticipated and she has to go...

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner Published March 2nd 2021 by Park Row A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them—setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman. Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register...

The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur #1) by Elly Griffiths Published March 5th 2019 by Mariner Books Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger,” lef...

The Streel -Published May 12th 2020 by Univ Of Minnesota Press When I was fifteen and my brother Seamus sixteen, we attended our own wake. Our family was in mourning, forced to send us off to America. The year is 1880, and of all the places Brigid Reardon and her brother might have dreamed of when escaping Ireland’s potato famine by moving to America, Deadwood, South Dakota, was not one of them. B...

What to read at the beach, vacation or just your backyard hammock. Much Ado about Nauticaling (Whit and Whiskers Mystery #1) Published July 27th 2021 by Kensington Publishing Corporation by Gabby Allan Whitney Dagner is your tour guide to a Pacific paradise that's to die for--only to find it's a place people are also willing to kill for--in Gabby Allan's Much Ado About Nauticaling, first in the "W...

We selected three nominees from different categories to interview, to talk about their books they were nominated for. A Spell for Trouble by Esme Addison Published July 7th 2020 by Crooked Lane Books Alexandra Daniels hasn't set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina in over twenty years. Ever since her mother's tragic death, her father has mysteriously forbidden her from vi...

We pay tribute to the amazing and talented LGBTQ authors. This is just the tip of the iceberg of authors that represent this community. Shadow Sands (Kate Marshall #2) Published November 3rd 2020 by Thomas & Mercer by Robert Bryndza The internationally bestselling author of Nine Elms and The Girl in the Ice is back with a nail-biting new Kate Marshall case, a woman with a dark secret and a powerfu...

False Light - Published February 23rd 2021 by Greenleaf Book Group Press Seasoned reporter Sanford “Fuse” Petty is old-school in every way—anti-technology, anti-Millennial (don’t even mention Gen-Z), and anti-“gotcha” journalism. After Fuse is asked to leave his paper pending a disciplinary investigation, he has plenty of time on his hands. So when his oldest friend approaches him for advice after...

Back by popular demand another What we are Reading for June. On this episode we talk about. Mirrorland Published April 20th 2021 by Scribner by Carole Johnstone With the startling twists of Gone Girl and the haunting emotional power of Room, Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives...

In the fourth Death by Chocolate Mystery by the bestselling author of the Home Repair is Homicide series, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Ellie White are fired up for Eastport, Maine's Annual Cookie Baking Contest. But when a cunning killer and a devastating fire threaten to ravage the quaint island town, Jake and Ellie must dip into another homemade homicide investigation before all they love goes up...

Fatal Intent by Tammy Euliano Elderly patients are dying at home days after minor surgery. Natural causes? Malpractice? Or a serial killer? And why doesn’t anyone care? Anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why, but her unorthodox investigation threatens her job, her family, and her very life. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose w...

Sherlock Holmes has retired to the Sussex countryside . . . that is, until a most formidable puzzle is dropped upon his doorstep by a certain Colonel Pickering. One Miss Eliza Doolittle, once nothing more than a cockney guttersnipe, has been transformed into a proper lady of London—perhaps even a duchess?—as if overnight. When Col. Pickering recovered from a bout of malaria, he was astounded at th...

Four books for your reading pleasure! The Last Exit by Michael Kaufman Published January 12th 2021 by Crooked Lane Books Valentino Will Die (The Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse #2) by Donis Casey Published February 2nd 2021 by Poisoned Pen Press Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan Published February 2nd 2021 by Random House A Stran...

The Last Tea Bowl Thief by Jonelle Patrick For three hundred years, a stolen relic passes from one fortune-seeker to the next, indelibly altering the lives of those who possess it. In modern-day Tokyo, Robin Swann’s life has sputtered to a stop. She’s stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Her stalled dissertation sits on her lap...