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Episode #22: Edwin Hill is the Edgar and Agatha award nominated author of the critically acclaimed Hester Thursby series. Edwin talks about his library researcher character and her friends and why she appears in a supporting role in his latest thriller "The Secrets We Share." We also talk about the Boston neighborhoods where the novels are set, and what he's learned from teaching writing classes.

Episode #21: A Conversation with Catriona McPherson. A major award winning author of more than 30 novels, McPherson talks about how the Edinburgh-born writer became an author of California-based humorous mysteries with the Last Ditch series. We also talk about her 15-book Dandy Gilver series set in Scotland of the 1920s and ’30s, and her standalone psychological thrillers. The fifth book in her La...

Episode #20: Gigi talks about “Under Lock and Skeleton Key,” her first book in the Hidden Staircase series featuring magician Tempest Raj. Gigi describes traveling the world with her cultural anthropologist parents, her love for mysteries especially John Dickson Carr, her researches into magic, and how she became an “accidental almost vegan.” Her second book in the series, “The Raven Thief,” will...

Episode #19: Did you know that Sonoma Valley has a cheese trail? Do you love cheese? Do you like relatable characters that have fun solving a cozy mystery? Join us in this conversational style interview with Author Korina Moss as she discusses the inspiration behind the first book in her Cheese Shop Mystery series, Cheddar Off Dead.

Episode #18: The author of the “Suburban Detective” series featuring P.I. Bill Habermann and the “Cold War Thriller” series featuring Karl Baier talks about his 38-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency, why he started writing mysteries before switching to Cold War-era thrillers, and his experiences in Berlin the year the wall fell. He also talks about Baier and why he differs from other i...

Episode #17: Maureen Jennings is an Award Winning Author living in  Toronto, Canada. She is known for Murdoch Mysteries, Charlotte Frayne  P.I., Tom Tyler Books, and Christine Morris Books.

Episode #16: The longtime editor, anthologist, and owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York talks about his beginnings in the book business, why he thinks the British write better espionage novels (with one exception), his latest offerings from the Mysterious Press, American Mystery Classics, and his new imprint (Scarlet) offering psychological suspense and domestic thrillers, and working with...

Episode #15: The bestselling thriller author of the Jonathan Graves series (“Stealth Attack” 2021) and the Victoria Emerson series (“Crimson Phoenix” 2021) talks about what he has in common with Graves, why the Emerson series should not be called post-apocalypse, and why he doesn’t drop F-bombs in his novels.

Episode #14: The multi-talented author of “Careless Love” and co-author (with podcast guest Cordelia Francis Biddle) of the Nero Blanc mystery series tells us about how a family story inspired his novel about a man investigating his mother’s past in 1979 Hawaii and how his acting influenced his writing. You can purchase his books at our website: www.mysterybooksonline.com

Episode #13: The Philadelphia author of the Nero Blanc and Martha Beale mystery series dives into the infamous bank war between President Andrew Jackson and her ancestor Nicholas Biddle, the head of the Second National Bank of the United States. We talk about Nicholas’ life which included his editing of the Lewis and Clark expedition journals, his travels in Europe as a possible intelligence agent...

Episode #12: In this episode, Misty Simon shares with us about her "insane dogs" and how she obtained her new pen name, Gabby Allan. Her new book, Much Ado About Nauticaling, comes out in a few days!! Unlike the traditional cozies that so many of us associate with her, this new series is fashioned as a RomCozy. (like a RomCom)     Teaser:After far too many years in the Los Angeles c...

Episode #11: In this episode, Charles Fergus dives into the background of his main  character, Gideon, who is Sheriff of a fictional county located in  Central Pennsylvania in the 1830s. Within his mystery novels, there a  deeper connectivity to nature that reveals much into the author's own life experiences.     Many of Mr. Fergus's other books are nature and wildlif...

Episode #10: In this episode, Ellen Crosby discusses her latest novel in her Wine Country Mystery series, with main character Lucie Montgomery. Our host goes into questions that bring about the way Mrs. Crosby conducts her research and develops her story lines. With her latest mystery involving Jackie Kennedy and some letters that she had written, a discussion ensues on the topic of privacy and ho...

Episode #9: In this episode, Sophie Hannah joins us from across the pond to discuss about her writings in the Simon and Charles series along with her continuation novels in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series. Her books have been distributed in 51 countries and have ranked among the top sellers. She teaches presently at Cambridge University in England, while still writing, and dives into the "...

Episode #8: In this episode, Sherry Knowlton talks about her latest novel in her Alexa Williams Novels, Dead on the Delta, which came out February of this year. The main character is a lawyer that moved back home from the big city to live a quiet life in south central Pennsylvania. Instead of being able to achieve her woodsy serene life, Alexa finds herself mixed up in different murders and troubl...

Episode #7: In this episode, Greer Macallister talks about her latest novel, Arctic Fury, which was just dropped fresh from the publisher in December 2020. Our host, Bill Peschel, goes into the depths of the characters and the development it took to construct such a complex narrative about a fictional expedition into the arctic by a thirteen woman team. You can purchase her books at our website: w...

Episode #6: In this episode, Longtime bestselling author Vicki Delany talks about her home on a Canadian littoral on Lake Ontario, her multiple book series including “Dying in a Winter Wonderland” in her Year-Round Christmas Mystery series, and her upcoming series set in the Catskills, and Canadian crime writers you should check out. You can purchase her books at our website: www.mysterybooksonlin...

Episode #4: In this episode, Robert Forte talks about his novels The Woman in the Yellow Dress, in the Patrick Miles Atwater series, and his latest novel, The U.S. Party. Throughout Robert Forte's career in writing, he has written screenplays in Hollywood and novels in Johnstown, PA. From working with major film companies, such as Universal, to working with smaller play productions on the East Coa...

Episode #3: Kari talks about her Annie Oakley mystery series, the most recent of which is “Folly at the Fair.” We discuss her longtime interest in history, how her father introduced her to Annie, how she used historical characters in her story, Kari’s love for horses and natural horsemanship, and her second mystery series about Ziegfeld Follies costume designer and amateur sleuth Grace Michelle. Y...

Episode #2: Longtime journalist R.G. Belsky has written 14 novels based on his experiences at major New York City tabloids, Star magazine, and NBCNews.com. We talk about Clare Carlson, the TV news producer investigating the death of her old mentor in “The Last Scoop;” what it takes to be a hard-nosed journalist; and his role in the infamous “Headless Body in Topless Bar” story. You can purchase hi...

Episode #1: Edgar award-winning author Eliot Pattison talks his Bone Rattler series, set in the years leading up to the American Revolution. We discuss Native American spirituality, the importance of the discovery of ancient bones in wilderness Kentucky, how to depict historical figures in fiction, and the development of American identity and the concept of freedom in his books. We also touch on h...