Episode 43: Tom Sawyer
Given the stuff on TV at the time, and especially conditioned by the dreck on which I’d been working for the past few years, I really didn’t expect much. But, alone in that room, within a few minutes I was Read More …
Category: Thriller
Episode 40: Jenny Milchman
My husband wasn’t in bed with me when I woke up that January morning. The mid-winter sky was bruised purple and yellow outside the window. I shut bleary eyes against light that glared and pounded. A second later I realized Read More …
Episode 34: Sally Wright
When I was lying in the hospital three months or so ago, after the boys and their children had gone home, Alan came back and kissed my forehead and said, “It’s time you wrote it down…” I didn’t have to Read More …
Episode 33: Dennis Palumbo
The last time I saw Lisa Campbell, she was naked. It was almost thirty years ago, when I was in junior high and she was the latest Hot Young Thing, smiling invitingly at me — and thousands of other lonely Read More …
Episode 32: Ellen Kirschman
Randy Alderson Spelling looks more like a girl than a woman. So tiny she’s nearly lost in the cushions of my office couch. Her legs jut out over the floor until she scoots forward and places her feet squarely on Read More …
Episode 26: Christina Hoag
Night in L.A. can be heavy as a medieval cloak or it can sparkle and crackle. It can burn you with its current, protect you or betray you… — Skin of Tattoos, Christina Hoag Christina Hoag is a journalist, nonfiction Read More …
Episode 24: Sasscer Hill
The Nikki Latrelle Mystery Novels are set in the high-stakes world of horse racing — a world Sasscer Hill knows well and captures in vivid detail. It’s impossible to talk about horse racing mysteries without giving a nod to the Read More …
Episode 11: S.M. Freedman
Today’s guest became an international best-selling author with her debut thriller, The Faithful. S.M. Freedman’s smart, haunting thriller was inspired by the idea of a massive meteorite striking the earth and causing mass destruction — a scary possibility that Shoshona took Read More …
Episode 5: Peg Brantley
If you’re looking for fast-paced thrillers with well-rounded characters and plenty of chills, look no further. Peg Brantley delivers. We talk about the inspiration for Red Tide; culture and vulnerable populations in The Missings; her most recent novel, The Sacrifice; Read More …