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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 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 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 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 43: Tom Sawyer

Posted onMay 1, 2017May 1, 2017

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 …

Categoriesfeatured, Private Eye, ThrillerTagscozy, Memoir, Murder She Wrote, PI, thriller

Episode 40: Jenny Milchman

Posted onMarch 7, 2017March 8, 20171 Comment

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 …

Categoriesfeatured, ThrillerTagsJenny Milchman, thriller

Episode 33: Dennis Palumbo

Posted onNovember 28, 2016November 27, 2016

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 …

Categoriesfeatured, ThrillerTagsDennis Palumbo, Hollywood, mystery, psychology, suspense, thriller

Episode 32: Ellen Kirschman

Posted onNovember 20, 2016November 27, 2016

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 …

CategoriesAmateur Sleuth, featured, Police, ThrillerTagsEllen Kirschman, police, psychologist, suspense, thriller

Episode 11: S.M. Freedman

Posted onJune 7, 20162 Comments

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 …

Categoriesfeatured, ThrillerTagscult, debut, thriller

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