It Was A Dark And Stormy Book Club

Round two of our special Agatha Nominee interviews. Edith Maxwell nominated for Best Historical Novel for Turning the Tide (Midnight Ink), Margalit Fox nominated for Best Non-Fiction for Conan Doyle for the Defense (Random House) and Keenan Powell nominated for Best First Novel for Deadly Solution (Level Best Books)

The first in the series of interview with Agatha Award Nominees. Cynthia Surrisi, nominated for Best YA Novel , Edwin Hill, nominated for Best First Novel, and Laura Thompson, nominated for Best Non Fiction, were the first group we selected.

On this installment of "In Agatha's Footsteps" We feature an interview with Rhys Bowen who is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly Murphy Mysteries, and Constable Evans. She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys’s titles have received rave reviews around the globe. We discuss her new stand-alone novels "In Fairleigh Field", "The Tuscan Child" and her latest "The Victory Garden"

We first interview Wendy Tyson and talk about her latest Greenhouse Mystery "Rooted in Deceit" Wendy is a writer, lawyer, and former therapist whose background has inspired her mysteries and thrillers. Wendy writes three mystery series, the bestselling Greenhouse Mystery Series and the popular Allison Campbell Mystery Series (Henery Press), and the Delilah Percy Powers crime series (Down & Out Books). Wendy’s short stories have appeared in literary journals, and she has short fiction in two anthologies, The Night of the Flood and Betrayed. Wendy and her family live in Vermont.We then welcome back Desmond P. Ryan to discuss his latest Mike O'Shea mystery "Death Before Coffee" Now, as a retired detective with three decades of research opportunities under his belt, he writes crime fiction. We also talk about a new series he has in the works.

We feature an interview with Nicola Upson who is a British novelist, author of An Expert in Murder, and several other novels featuring a fictional version of Josephine Tey as the heroine and detective. The latest in the series will be released in April - "Sorry for the Dead" Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk in 1970 and has a bachelor's degree in English from Downing College, Cambridge.

On today's episode we highlighted two books. We reviewed "The Second Rider" by Alex Beer. It is a post World War I set in Vienna. Then we reviewed "Coma Dreams" by N. Lawrence Mann, a fantastical thriller with elements of addiction fiction.

We focus on two books this week the first is HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE by Kellye Garrett. Kellye's first novel, Hollywood Homicide, won Agatha, Anthony, Lefty and IPPY awards for best first novel. It was also nominated for Macavity and Barry awards. Hollywood Ending, her second book in the Detective by Day mystery series, was chosen a best mystery of 2018 by Suspense Magazine, Book Riot and CrimeReads, which called it the most fun book of the year. In addition to writing, she currently serves on the national Board of Directors of Sisters in Crime as its Publicity Liaison. Then we highlight KINFOLK KILLERS by L.V. Nield. Prior to retiring with her husband to Vancouver Island, Canada, L.V. Nield practiced law for many years in New York State. Working primarily in Elder Law, Laura was always aware of the vulnerability of seniors. KINFOLK KILLERS - An Olive Reader Mystery, while a work of pure fiction, incorporates potential abuses of the old and frail.

We interview Peggy Townsend she is a longtime newspaper reporter who has won multiple state and national awards for her work. She has chased a serial killer through a graveyard at midnight, panhandled with street kids, and sat on a mountaintop with a woman who counted her riches in each morning's sunrise. We discuss the amazing 1st book in her Aloa Snow mystery series SEE HER RUN and her upcoming second book THE THIN EDGE.

We have a packed episode with a revisit from one of our favorites Cathy Ace. We discuss her new stand-alone THE WRONG BOY. Cathy Ace is the author of the award-winning Cait Morgan Mysteries and the WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries. Now she’s turned to the darker side of Welsh crime fiction with The Wrong Boy. Next, we highlight Ian Andrew's Wright & Tran crime trilogy. Kara Wright and Tien Tran, combat veterans of an elite intelligence unit, now make their living as Private Investigators. Often working the mundane, just occasionally they get to use all their former training.Then we highlight Roger Johns, RIVER OF SECRETS the 2nd in the Wallace Hartman mystery series. When a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman struggles to find the killer amid conspiracies and corruption.

This episode features an interview with Andrew Shaffer who is a New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter whose books include the parody Fifty Shames of Earl Grey and the humorous survival guide How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters. His new book, the instant national bestseller Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery is now available wherever books are sold from Quirk Books and Audible.

Our next honoree of "In Agatha's Footsteps" is Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Her books have been top-3 bestsellers in the United States and number one bestsellers abroad. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon). Critics around the world have praised her novels as “Pulse-pounding fun” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “Scary and brilliant” (Toronto Globe and Mail), and “Polished, riveting prose” (Chicago Tribune). Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the “medical suspense queen”.

Bookends #18 features an interview with Steven C. Levi. We discuss his book DEAD MEN DO COME BACK. Our book highlight this week is a 1920's small town mystery PAINT THE LIBRARIAN DEAD by Kenn Grimes.

We interview Brad Ricca and discuss his book-"Mrs. Holmes"it tells the incredible story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, and detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917. Grace was an amazing lawyer and travelling detective during a time when no women were practising in the legal profession. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. Grace became the first female US District Attorney and made ground-breaking investigations into the practice of modern slavery. In the Ruth Cruger case, Grace followed a trail of corruption that led from New York to Italy. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls. But the victory came with a price.

Part II of our catch up with the authors we interviewed this past year included- Alice Castle, T.G. Campbell, Hilder sif Thorarensen, Ellen Butler, Nick van der Leek, Cathy Ace, Dennis Palumbo and Desmond P. Ryan.

We take the time to catch up with the amazing authors we have had the pleasure of encountering this past year. Steven Axelrod, Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli, Lauren Carr, Jana DeLeon, Karen Ellis (Katia Lief), Thomas Fincham, Celina Grace, Jane Haseldine, Ed Ifkovic, Cynthia Kuhn, Alice Loweecey and Becky Masterman. Next week we will update the authors from our bookends episodes.

Learn how DNA has changed crime scene investigations. Virginia Sladko, a forensic scientist with the Baltimore Police Department, will discuss the part DNA has played in solving cases and in overturning wrongful convictions.

D.M. Quincy is an award-winning journalist who--after covering many unsolved murders--decided to conceive her own stories in which a brilliant amateur detective always gets the bad guy (or girl). She writes about Regency England, a time of elegance and extravagance, as well as crime and poverty, is the world of amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby.

This episode focuses on the independent publishing world. From one end of the spectrum to the other. First we feature an interview with Adam Croft who is an international best-selling writer of crime fiction. He has become one of the biggest-selling self-published authors in the world and is a prominent advocate of independent publishing. His latest thriller is THE PERFECT LIE.We then interview up and coming author Tom Reilly and we discuss his journey into the independent publishing world and we talk about his debut book GRAYSCALE.

We interview Mark Pryor who is a British mystery writer and Assistant District Attorney for Travis County, Texas. He is best known for his mystery novels featuring Hugo Marston, a former FBI agent from Texas, and now head of security at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

We had a lively interview with Desmond P. Ryan, author of "10-33 Assist PC". Ryan, an almost 30 year veteran of the Toronto, Canada police force. We also highlighted two books, "Guilt" by Amanda Robson, a dark psychological thriller. We then highlighted "Death by Diploma" by Kelley Kaye, a light hearted cozy set in a high school in Colorado.