KPL Podcast

This week on the KPL Podcast we have author Moorea Corrigan to discuss her cozy historical fantasy, Thistlemarsh .  Think Downton Abbey with Faeries. The book is set post WW1 in England. A young women inherits a manor house with certain conditions.  She must renovate the house in one month or lose it.  The renovations aren't simple and cannot be done in the short timeframe. So she makes a bar...

This week on the KPL podcast we have author Joan F. Smith and we discuss, Your Soulmail is Attached . A speculative fiction novel about how the world would change after every adult is told the name of their soulmate.  Marriages break apart in some cases and in other situations relationships are stronger. Dating, social media, and even religion are changed. Listen to learn more. Author reads This S...

This week on the KPL podcast we have author duo Jo Dinkin and Catherine Brinkworth.  Their first novel together is The Pie and Mash Detective Agency .  The book is about two newbie private detectives assigned to solve the recurring disappearance of a woman named Nellie Thorn.  A wonderful addition to the cozy genre. Author Reads A Murder in Eight Cocktails by Kelly Mullen The Silent Patient by Ale...

This week on the KPL Podcast we have bestselling author Shelley Noble telling us about The Sisters of Book Row .   A historical fiction novel that explores Anthony Comstock and his ruthless campaign against Manhattan’s “Book Row.” Three sisters band together to challenge censorship and fight to preserve the heart of the city’s literary world.  Author Reads Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1984 by Ge...

Bestselling author Marie Benedict is back with another wonderful historical fiction, titled Daughter of Egypt .  We are introduced to two remarkable women whom history nearly erased. One is Evelyn Herbert, who was present at the archaeological discovery of Tutankhamun’s burial site, and the other is Hatshepsut, a powerful woman who ruled as Pharaoh during the 18th dynasty Author Reads What We Can...

This week on the KPL Podcast we have local Missouri author and historian Sean Rost.  We discuss his new book, Catching Hell from All Quarters: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri .  He's taken a deep dive into rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan during interwar Missouri.  Rost will focus on several notable figures who comprised an interracial, interdenominational, and bipartisan anti-Klan coalit...

This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with bestselling author Elizabeth Arnott Her latest novel, The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives tells the story from the perspective of 3 women after their husbands are arrest for murder.  When women begin dying in similar circumstances, they band together to catch the killer. Author Reads Wild Dark Shore by McConaghy

This week on the KPL Podcast we spoke with Izzy Broom about The House of Hidden Letters.   A dual timeline story set on a small Greek Island.  A woman wins a contest to purchase a home on Folegandros for 1 Euro.  As she begins renovations she finds letters belonging to the previous owner from 1940s during the German and Italian occupation.  Author reads The One Day You Were My Husband by Rosie Wal...

This week on the KPL podcast we are speaking with author Michelle Maryk about her debut novel, The Found Object Society .  Imagine a secret society that holds thousands of objects from all over the world and from different time periods.  Each object can take you on a voyage to relive the last moments of the person who died holding it. Listen to learn more. Author Reads Pinky Swear by Danielle Gira...

This week on the KPL podcast we spoke with author Janie Chang about her latest novel, The Fourth Princess.   This is a gothic mystery set in Shanghai China during the early 1900's about two woman, Lisan comes to work for Caroline.  Slowly, things begin to unravel as both women learn about the people in their lives.  Author Reads Ithica by Claire North House of Odysseus by Claire North The Las...

Another exciting week on the KPL Podcast.  This week we spoke with author/attorney Yosha Gunasekera about her debut whodunit, The Midnight Taxi.  The story is about a female Sri Lankan-American taxi driver in NYC.  She picks up a fare late night and he is murdered in the backseat while she is driving the taxi.  Automatically, she becomes the prime suspect and has to solve the murder herself.  Auth...

This week on the KPL Podcast we have author Kashana Cauley telling us about her latest novel The Payback .  This story is an funny, satirical look at the student system in our country.  Three women are stuck with massive student loan debt that is difficult to pay on their low income retail jobs.  They are stalked by debt police and see no hope at ever repaying their student loans.  They hatch out...

This week on KPL Podcast we have author LS Stratton with her first YA novel Sundown Girls .  The story focuses on a teenage girl named Naomi who was kidnapped as a toddler.  She is now back with her family and the woman who raised is in jail for kidnapping. Her family goes on a weekend getaway in a former sundown town.  Mysterious things begin to happen.  Daughter of the Merciful Deep by Leslye Pe...

This week on the KPL Podcast we spoke with Lynn Cullen about her latest historical fiction, When We Were Brilliant .   The book explores the friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold, the only woman to photograph Marilyn. Written from Eve’s perspective as if she were writing directly to Marilyn, the novel reveals intimate and lesser-known moments from both women’s lives, offering a fresh an...

This week we spoke with Karen Winn about her latest novel The Society .  This story revolves around a secret society known as The Knox.  Two women's lives intertwine as they get involved with the Knox.  Vivian is searching for answers to her heritage and disappears as she digs deeper in her family's involvement with the Knox.  Another woman, Taylor, is pulled into the Knox's orbit w...

On this week’s episode of the KPL Podcast, we spoke with authors Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith about their latest novel, Sounds Like Trouble . We had a great time talking about their collaborative writing process and how they first began working together. Sounds Like Trouble reunites readers with Mackenzie and Jackson, who have just opened a PI agency and are still figuring out t...

This week on the KPL Podcast, we’re joined by Tamara Berry to talk about her latest novel, Murder Runs in the Family . When a granddaughter comes to stay with her grandmother in a retirement community, she quickly finds herself helping Grandma dodge a very real murder charge. Packed with laugh-out-loud moments, quirky residents, and an unforgettable pet turtle, this cozy mystery is as charming as...

 This week on the KPL Podcast, we welcome back returning author Eva Jurczyk to talk about her latest novel, 6:40 to Montreal . A clever homage to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express , the book is a tightly crafted locked-room mystery set aboard a train traveling from Toronto to Montreal. Packed with intrigue and classic whodunit twists, it’s a page-turner that will keep readers guessing...

This week on the KPL Podcast, we talk with Jinwoo Park about his latest novel, T he Oxford Soju Club . Part spy novel and part exploration of identity, the immigrant experience, and the parent–child relationship, the book is richly layered and deeply engaging, with plenty to keep readers hooked. Red Sword by Bora Chung A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-Ran

 This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with author Annalee Newitz about Automatic Noodle , their inventive new novel. Set in a future California where robots have won their freedom, the story follows a group of food-service bots in a deserted ghost kitchen who seize control of their old delivery app account. Rebranding themselves as a neighborhood lunch spot, they whip up some of the best hand-pu...

 This week on the KPL Podcast, we speak with bestselling author Kristi DeMeester about her new novel Dark Sisters . In this fierce and haunting Southern Gothic, DeMeester unravels an intergenerational curse that binds — and torments — the women of Hawthorne Springs, an affluent town ruled by a powerful church known as The Path. Spanning centuries, the story follows three unforgettable protagonists...

 This week on the KPL Podcast, we speak with bestselling author Laura Griffin about her latest novel, Innocence Road . Set in the small town of Marfa, Texas, this suspenseful murder mystery opens with Deputy Leanne being called to a fresh crime scene at the edge of the desert, where a nameless woman has been found with no clues to her identity. As Leanne investigates, she must also confront the re...

 This week on the KPL Podcast, we’re joined by author Peggy Townsend to discuss The Botanist’s Assistant . If you’re looking for a cozy mystery with a STEM twist, this one’s for you. The story follows a research scientist whose life is upended when her boss is murdered—and no one seems interested in finding out why. Filled with quirky characters and light-hearted intrigue, this fun mystery will ke...

 Lucas Schaefer recently won the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Fiction for The Slip , his debut novel centered on the lives orbiting an Austin, Texas boxing gym and the disappearance of a 16-year-old boy. We talk with Lucas about what it was like to receive such an acclaimed honor, the story behind the book, and parenthood.

This week we speak with journalist Chris Sweeney about his debut book, The Feather Detective Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne. The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist, Roxie Laybourne.   She broke down barriers for women, solved murders, and investigated deadly airplane crashes with nothing more than a microscope and a few f...