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Episode 54: Kirsten Weiss

Posted onOctober 31, 2017October 30, 2017

All I could see was the dress. The ghost of weddings past, it swept above the checkered linoleum floor and rooted me in place. My heart twisted, leaving me breathless. I jolted into motion. The quiche, forgotten, slipped sideways on Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featured, ParanormalTagscozy, culinary, Kirsten Weiss, murder, mystery, paranormal, pie town

Episode 53: Jeri Westerson

Posted onOctober 18, 2017October 18, 20171 Comment

I didn’t believe in ghosts or the supernatural…but that weird noise in the wall was testing my convictions. The unpleasant scratching sound that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention had been going on for Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, Historical, Noir, Paranormal, Urban FantasyTagsdemon, historical, Jeri Westerson, murder, mystery, paranormal, urban fantasy

Episode 52: Paul D. Marks

Posted onOctober 3, 2017October 3, 2017

Teddie Matson had a golden life, until her path had the misfortune of crossing mine. I sat staring out the window of my office, k.d. lang playing in the background. It was a while till the sun would set, that Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, Noir, Private Eye, ThrillerTagsLos Angeles, mystery, noir, Paul D. Marks, Private Eye, short stories, White Heat, writing

Episode 51: Steve Goble

Posted onSeptember 20, 2017September 20, 2017

Spider John Rush resigned himself to the hard truth–he was returning to a world of cut and thrust, hide and pounce, blood and smoke, pitch and tar.  He had been foolish to think of leaving that world; Spider John belonged Read More …

CategoriesAdventure, Amateur Sleuth, featured, Historical, Noir, PiratesTagsadventure, Bloody Black Flag, murder, mystery, noir, pirate, Steve Goble

Episode 50: Kellye Garrett

Posted onSeptember 6, 2017September 5, 2017

The copy was straight to the point. Wanted: Information on the hit-and-run murder of Haley Joseph. Tuesday, August 18th, 11:30 p.m., Vermont Ave near Hillside St. And across the bottom, right over her press-on French manicure, $15,000 reward. I peered Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featuredTagsactress, amateur sleuth, cozy, Detective by Day, Hollywood Homicide, Kellye Garrett, murder, mystery

Episode 49: Melinda Snodgrass

Posted onJuly 26, 2017July 26, 2017

I looked out the plane’s window at Los Angeles, and it looked like any other airport. No palm trees in evidence. No movie stars strolling across the tarmac toward private jets. No surfboards. The only difference between LAX and LaGuardia Read More …

CategoriesAdventure, featured, Paranormal, Urban FantasyTagsfantasy, Melinda Snodgrass, mystery, sci-fi, space opera, urban fantasy

Episode 48: Frankie Bow

Posted onJuly 12, 2017July 12, 2017

Inside the navy-blue Victorian house two blocks off Main Street, four women sat around a sturdy kitchen table. As you watched them chatting and sipping sweet tea, you might assume you were observing a church committee or a quilting circle. Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Campus Mystery, Cozy, featuredTagschildren, cozy, Frankie Bow, Hawaii, Jana DeLeon, murder, mystery, Professor Molly

Episode 47: Leslie Karst

Posted onJune 30, 2017June 29, 20171 Comment

“Papà.” I looked into my father’s eyes, deep blue and set off by leathery skin and rows of wrinkles—the result of age, but also a lifetime of long hours in fishing boats out in the sun. “Oh, Papà,” I said Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featuredTagscozy, food, Leslie Karst, murder, mystery, restaurant

Episode 46: DV Berkom

Posted onJune 14, 2017June 16, 2017

Leine checked her watch as she waited for the target to emerge from the concrete block building. Practical as only Soviet-style architecture could be, nevertheless the crumbling façade gave the impression of faded power, like a once-famous tenor now down Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, ThrillerTagsassassin, DV Berkom, human trafficking, Kate Jones, Leine Basso, thriller

Episode 45: Nupur Tustin

Posted onMay 30, 2017May 30, 2017

The faint breeze from the open window carried the sound of the Burgermeister’s rich baritone singing the arpeggios Haydn had assigned him: “Do Mi So Mi Do.” In the distance, he could hear the soft, melodious strains of the barber-surgeon’s violin. Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, Cozy, featured, HistoricalTagscomposer, cozy, Haydn, historical, murder, music

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