The Crime Is Up Podcast

A group of carpenters uncover something spectacular in the walls of the house they’re renovating: a rare comic book worth millions!  Should be an easy three way split between them.  But their friendship is tested when a workplace “accident” starts to look more like a workplace murder.  Is one of them trying for a bigger piece of the score?  Or have paranoia and greed begun poisoning their friendsh...

Malcolm and Dwight’s respective paths of revenge are about to intersect in the exciting, bloody conclusion of Cut You Down .  Who will be left standing?  And can the fledgling family bonds Malcolm has formed with Michael and Mary survive this fight?  Take a listen to Episode 08 of The Crime Is Up Podcast to find out! And for their movie talk, Chris and Will are wrangling their thoughts for a super...

Malcolm puts his new bow and arrows to good use.  First on a hunting trip with his son, Michael, and then while tracking a more sinister, deadly prey.  One that can shoot back. A frustrated Dwight raises the price on Malcolm’s head as he tries to run his protection business from a distance.  And Mary and Malcolm struggle to navigate their new family dynamic with the specter of Malcolm’s impending...

Dwight may be leaving town, but the professional gunman he hired isn’t going to make Malcolm’s return from prison simple.  And it’s hard enough for Malcolm as he tries to start over with Mary and their son Michael, whom he has yet to meet. How will the boy take to finally meeting his father?  And what sort of revenge does Malcolm have in mind for his former partner-in-crime?  Have a listen to Cut...

Malcolm gets out of prison after 9 years and doesn’t want anything… except what’s his. The taciturn, hulking ex-con has to decide what shape his revenge is going to take as he tracks down his old flame Mary and finds her living with his ex-partner-in-crime Dwight. The pair have been raising Malcolm’s 9 year old son together; but now he’s out.   And for their movie talk, Chris and Will are giving y...

Mitchell’s drive to South Jersey has been fraught with danger and bad decisions. And now he has to dig two graves instead of one. Can he get the bodies buried six feet under with nothing but a little blood and dirt on his hands? Take a listen to the exciting conclusion of Jersey Devils to find out! Stick around after the story for Chris and Will’s super-sized comparison episode where they talk abo...

Instead of keeping a low profile, Mitchell winds up pickpocketing a man and crashing the back of his truck’s trailer into a parked car. Not ideal. Especially when said truck is carrying a dead body set for burial deep in the Pine Barrens.  That’s the sort of behavior that attracts the law. And cops are the last thing Mitchell needs as his truck finally hits the highway... For their movie discussio...

Mitchell finds himself going from witness to accomplice in a murder, and is faced with the ever-escalating stakes in his new venture with Wooley. He finally has the truck he’s been saving for, but under the false floorboards he’s forced to carry an unfortunate cargo… a dead man! And this episode, Chris and Will are talking about the pseudo-noir truck driving movie They Drive by Night starring Hump...

For our inaugural episode, you’ll find part one of the original crime fiction story Jersey Devils . It centers on Mitchell, a small-time hustler scraping a living together with petty theft in Asbury Park.  But those days are behind him, because Mitchell has finally found his best scam yet. Because it isn’t even a scam... well, mostly it isn’t. All he has to do is drive.   Mitchell buys in on a tra...

It's a hybrid podcast!  Each episode features original crime fiction and an appreciation of a film noir or crime film classic. Check out Chris and Will’s super-sized comparison episode where they talk about The Getaway ! They’re tackling the Jim Thompson crime fiction classic as well as both film adaptations of it.   We’ve got Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bloodbath featuring the King of Cool h...

Jersey Devils centers on Mitchell, a small-time hustler scraping a living together with petty theft in Asbury Park.  But those days are behind him, because Mitchell has finally found his best scam yet. Because it isn’t even a scam... well, mostly it isn’t. All he has to do is drive.   Mitchell buys in on a tractor trailer truck with a false floor and the promise of the open road it brings. Only pr...