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Category: Thriller

Episode 77: Michael Bowen – Locked Rooms and Courtrooms

Posted onOctober 22, 2019October 22, 2019

In June, 2019, a nice young man in a blue suit asked me “when was the last time you smoked marijuana, ma’am?” I told him the truth – semester break during my sophomore year at Tulane – because you don’t Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, ThrillerTagsconspiracy, Michael Bowen, murder, politics, thriller, Washington

Episode 74: Elizabeth McCourt

Posted onSeptember 11, 20182 Comments

I repeated my thirty seconds of speeding up and thirty seconds of rest method, sprinting around the park’s track. I was panting hard when I rounded the bend coming back to where I’d started. I veered off the track, my Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, Law, ThrillerTagsBig Easy, legal thriller, murder, mystery, New Orleans

Episode 70: Pamela Samuels Young

Posted onJuly 10, 2018July 10, 2018

If Max Montgomery ever had to commit to monogamy to save his wife’s life, she would just have to come back and haunt him from the afterlife. Max rested his forearm on the registration desk as his eyes anxiously crisscrossed Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, Law, ThrillerTagsattorney, legal, murder, mystery, Pamela Samuels Young, thriller

Episode 68: Ken Hicks and Anne Rothman-Hicks

Posted onJune 12, 2018June 12, 20181 Comment

     “Carmen’s working on a series about children and the courts,” Francine said. “Kids falling into poverty are a very big problem.”      “I’m aware of the problem, Francine. I’ll skip over the question of what has made Read More …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, Law, ThrillerTagsAnne Rothman-Hicks, Ken Hicks, legal, murder, mystery, thriller

Episode 67: Con Lehane

Posted onMay 30, 2018May 31, 20182 Comments

The day had gone badly for Raymond Ambler, a bitterly cold, gray, January day not long after New Year’s, the wind like a knife, slicing into the cavern cut by 42nd Street between the skyscrapers on either side. The wind Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, Suspense, ThrillerTagsamateur sleuth, bar, Con Lehane, library, murder, mystery

Episode 66: Mark S. Bacon

Posted onMay 16, 2018May 15, 2018

Lyle Deming braked his Mustang hard and aimed for the sandy shoulder of the desert road. Luckily, his daughter Sam had been looking down and didn’t see the body. He passed a thicket of creosote and manzanita and pulled onto Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, Suspense, ThrillerTagscars, classic cars, murder, mystery, Nostalgia City

Episode 62: Jody Gehrman

Posted onMarch 7, 2018March 6, 20182 Comments

After five years waiting for this moment, watching you for the first time still catches me off guard. I recognize you from your book jacket, but the reality of you — a three-dimensional object moving through space, flesh and blood and golden hair— Read More …

Categoriesfeatured, Suspense, Thriller

Episode 59: Lisa Klink, Patrick Lohier, and Diana Renn

Posted onJanuary 24, 2018January 24, 2018

Layla faced the mirror and took a deep breath. When she went out there, she had to be effortlessly confident. She certainly looked the part, in a rose-colored Givenchy dress that complemented her olive skin and tasteful diamond earrings. She’d Read More …

CategoriesAdventure, featured, International, ThrillerTagsart heist, Cairo, mystery, spy, theft, thriller

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 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

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