Dark and Stormy Book Club

In honor of Cinco de Mayo we highlight 3 Hispanic mystery authors. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri The North Face of the Heart (Trilogía del Baztán #0) by Dolores Redondo, Michael Meigs (Translator)

Death on Ocean Boulevard - The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah's girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah's brother, Ada...

In honor of Tartan Day we bring you three Scottish mystery writers to check out. Murder in a Scottish Shire (A Scottish Shire Mystery #1) by Traci Hall Known as the Brighton of the North, Nairn is both a charming Scottish town and a popular seaside resort—but to Paislee Shaw, it's simply home—unfortunately to a murderer . . . For a twenty-eight-year-old single mum, Paislee has knit together a sens...

They're Gone by E.A. Barres (Pseudonym), E.A. Aymar Two women's husbands are murdered on the same night in the same way--and their investigation uncovers a terrifying connection. Two men from vastly different backgrounds are murdered one after another on the same night, in the same fashion with two bullet wounds: one in the head, another in the heart. The two slayings sends their wives on a desper...

Water Memory (Aubrey Sentro #1) A fast-paced, page-turning thriller that contemplates the consequences of motherhood, memory, and crime as a commodity. Black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro may be one concussion away from death. But when pirates seize the cargo ship she’s on, she must decide whether to risk her life to save her fellow passengers. Sentro’s training takes over, and she’s able to elude...

To help celebrate the Woman's History Month. We feature four fiction books that include real woman of history. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn Published June 6th 2017 by William Morrow Paperbacks The Diabolical Bones (Brontë Sisters Mystery #2) by Bella Ellis Published February 16th 2021 by Berkley Books (first published October 8th 2020) A Knife in the Fog (Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyl...

Justice Tomorrow Who lynched Henry Johnson? Young investigators Madeline Sterling and Socractes Gray head a team sent to a Georgia town in 1965 to learn who lynched the son of a local civil rights leader. Sterling doesn’t have her head on straight from her last assignment. And Gray knows pretty little Crossville, Georgia is no place for her or the handsom rookie she’s training to be a detective fo...

May you have the luck of the Irish after you discover these Irish mystery authors. Murder in Connemara (Home to Ireland Mystery #2) by Carlene O'Connor The Killer in Me (Frankie Sheehan #2) by Olivia Kiernan A Keeper by Graham Norton

Anne’s publishing career began with The Cater Street Hangman. Published in 1979, this was the first book in the series to feature the Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife Charlotte. This is arguably the longest sustained crime series by a living writer. Murder on the Serpentine is the latest (32nd) in the series. She has now started a series featuring their son Daniel, beginning...

Jennifer Dornbush is a screenwriter, author, international speaker and forensic specialist. As she says, “I grew up around death.” The television or movie screen is the closest most people will ever come to witnessing the forensic world. But Jennifer was raised in it. As the daughter of a small town medical examiner whose office was in their home. There were body parts in the fridge. She investiga...

We each chose an author we wanted to highlight. What You Don't Know by Bianca Sloane From the author of "Killing Me Softly" comes a terrifying thriller that will make you think twice before you open the front door… It’s Saturday morning. April Fool’s Day to be exact. Malcolm Gilbert is on his way to play golf. His wife, Blair, is headed to the hair salon. That’s the plan anyway. Then the doorbell...

This is a continuation of our conversation with Dr. Mark Aldridge. In this one hear all about Christies abilities to cement characters and We discuss her top ten list of all her books in 1972.

Dr Mark Aldridge is a senior lecturer at Solent University, Southampton. He was awarded his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2009, and previously wrote the definitive book about the film and television adaptations of Agatha Christie’s work, Agatha Christie on Screen, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Originally from Devon, he now lives in Hampshire with his partner, James....

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New York Times bestseller author, Ellery Adams, has written over thirty novels and can’t imagine spending a day away from the keyboard. Ms. Adams, a Native New Yorker, has had a lifelong love affair with stories, food, rescue animals, and large bodies of water. When not working on her next novel, she bakes, gardens, spoils her three cats, and wastes far too much time on Pinterest. She lives with h...

We hope you enjoy our full book review of The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton Stuart lives in London with his amazing wife and daughter. He drinks lots of tea. What else? ​When he left university he went travelling for three months and stayed away for five years. Every time his parents asked when he’d be back he told them next week, and meant it. Stuart is not to be trusted. In the nices...

The books we discuss on this episode are: Death, Diamonds, and Deception (A Gilded Age Mystery #5) by Rosemary Simpson All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16) by Louise Penny Never Look Back (Criminal Profiler #5) by Mary Burton A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent #4) by Anna Lee Huber Crooked River (Pendergast #19) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Edwin is the Edgar- and Agatha-award nominated author of Little Comfort, The Missing Ones, and Watch Her. He was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and spent most of his childhood obsessing over The Famous Five, Agatha Christie, and somehow finding a way into C.S. Lewis’s wardrobe. His parents were fond of taking his sister and him on month-long family camping trips across the U.S. and Canada, and on...

We hope you enjoy one of our all time favorite episodes of this past year. We will return next week with fresh content. HAPPY NEW YEAR. Here's to a year of great mysteries!!! 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the mother of fo...

We are taking a much deserved winter break. We hope you enjoy our most listened to episode of this past year. Robert was a delight. We will be back after the first or year with fresh and exciting content. Nine Elms (Kate Marshall #1) by Robert Bryndza Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned...

Smith Henderson is the recipient of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award in fiction. He was a 2011 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University, a 2011 Pushcart Prize winner, and a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He currently works at the Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, One Story, New Orleans Revie...

We cover some Winter Holiday Mysteries in one of our Roundup episodes. Murder at an Irish Christmas (Irish Village Mystery #6) by Carlene O'Connor The Gift of the Magpie (Meg Langslow #28) by Donna Andrews A Christmas Carol Murder (A Dickens of a Crime #3) by Heather Redmond A Page Marked for Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #5) by Lauren Elliott

Dr. Ian Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, SHRED: THE REVOLUTIONARY DIET, SUPER SHRED: The Big Results Diet, BLAST THE SUGAR OUT, The Clean 20, THE ANCIENT NINE, CLEAN & LEAN and eleven other books with millions of copies in print. His newest novel--THE UNSPOKEN, the first installment of his Ashe Cayne mystery series, is now available. Look for his next revolutionary d...

Leslie Rule's true crime debut, A Tangled Web, covers a frightening Omaha love triangle murder. "I chose this case because I want to warn readers that the female sadistic sociopath may be the most dangerous killer of all." A veteran author for over three decades, Rule's works include two suspense novels and five nonfiction books on the paranormal, including Coast to Coast Ghosts, True Stories of H...

Allen Eskens is the USA Today-bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, The Heavens May Fall, the Deep Dark Descending and The Shadows We Hide. He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Rosebud Award, Minnesota Book Award, and the Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, Thriller Award, and Anthony Award. His work had been published in 21 languages and h...