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2,265 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★ - 100 ratingsMany talented people's writings and movies address the deep, dark mysteries of our world — across both Fiction (Horror, Crime, Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure, Romance, LGBT) and Non-Fiction (Crime, History, Science, Paranormal) stories.
Please step into the “House of Mystery” 5 nights a week and join us as we go deep into the creative process behind our esteemed guests' works.
Past Guests in Non-Fiction have included Marcia Clark (of the O.J. Simpson trial), Robert Kennedy, Jr., Jesse Ventura, Burl Barer, Nancy Grace, Aphrodite Jones, Mark Olshaker, Anne Bremner (on Amanda Knox), F. Lee Bailey, Tom Mesereau (on Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson), Roger Stone (on the JFK Assassination), Dan Abrams, Juan Martinez (on Jodi Arias), Michael Hawley (on Jack the Ripper), and Michael Butterfield (on the Zodiac Killer).
Past Guests in Fiction have included Eric Shapiro, George Weir, John Copenhaver, Lee Goldberg, Gregory Ashe, J.D. Horn, Rick Poldark, Greg F. Gifune, Michael Bland, Geoff Symon, Gabriel Rottello, James Polchin, Lev Raphael, and Robert Fieseler.
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Dacre Stoker - Father of Dracula
March 26, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes - 113 MBBram Stoker, his life, his research and writing of Dracula to promote a documentary film called Father of Dracula, being made by an Irish film maker, Jason Figgis, and written by John West. I have contributed years of research and do the narration on the film. Dracula is the most famous horror character in literature. Over a hundred years after the publication of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, (1897) the character still has the power to fascinate and horrify us. The image of the undead va...
MB Mooney - Shield of the King: Elowen Book 1
March 23, 2024 05:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MBShe may not be the hero they want, but she is the one they need. Born in a kingdom where women are kept from power, Elowen has been trained as a warrior by her father, a former general. When her father is ordered out of retirement, she joins him on a journey to thwart a plot to assassinate the king. Tragedy strikes in defense of the royal family, and Elowen begins her own mission to expose the rebellion. She discovers secrets about her past that threaten to destroy her homeland and her ...
donalee Moulton - Conflagration
March 22, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes - 77.3 MBOn a warm spring day in April 1734, a fire raged through Montreal’s merchant quarters. When the flames finally died, 46 buildings – including the Hôtel-Dieu convent and hospital – had been destroyed. Within hours, rumors ran rampant that Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman fighting for her freedom, had started the fire with her white lover, Claude Thibault. Less than 24 hours later, Angelique was sitting in a prison cell. Her lover was nowhere to be found. More than 20 witnesses ...
Chris McAuley - Shadows By Gaslight
March 21, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBNo one ever knows what lurks beyond the light until it's too late. And for the unsuspecting victims, their worst nightmares come to life when they venture too far into the darkness. For where light is void, so are all forms of evil and unmentionable horrors. In 'Shadows by Gaslight,' you'll journey through cobblestone streets and opulent parlors to uncover captivating tales that define an era of Victoria lore. From the notorious criminals who haunted the night while authorities rallied at a ...
Mike Papantonio - Suspicious Activity: A Legal Thriller
March 20, 2024 05:00 - 41 minutes - 95.4 MB“The purpose of the lawsuit is to fully expose the bank’s willing support to groups that are killing Americans—and others—overseas.” This announcement by attorney Nicholas “Deke” Deketomis sets up the gladiatorial arena between Big Banking and a team of well-meaning activist lawyers. The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars introduced the concept of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) and EFPs (Explosively Formed Penetrators) that seriously maim or kill. It appears that these bombs are still being ...
Sydney Leigh - Peril in Pink
March 19, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutes - 63.8 MBIt’s the grand opening of The Pearl B&B in Hudson Valley, and owner Jess Byrne has prepared the ultimate, Insta-worthy welcome, complete with her ex-boyfriend—reality singing sensation Lars Armstrong—performing live. As guests check in and mimosas are poured, Lars arrives with his stepdad-turned-manager Bob in tow. But things go south when Bob is found dead, and Lars is the prime suspect. After a desperate plea from Lars, and knowing the reputation of her B&B is at stake, Jess agrees to hel...
Noir at the Bar! Birtcher, Tod Goldberg, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Arrowsmith, Wiebe, Brazil
March 16, 2024 05:00 - 20 seconds - 810 KBTonight the Authors reading from their novels are: Sam Wiebe - A Lonesome Place for Dying Tod Goldberg - Gangsters Don't Die Trish Arrowsmith - Nursery's Rhyme Baron Birtcher - Reckoning Ana Brazil - The Red-Hot Blues Chanteuse Lee Matthew Goldberg - Great Gimmelmans Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
C. McGee - Owen O'Shea Wannabe Detective
March 15, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutes - 78.3 MBSometimes parenting sucks, especially at the beginning. There’s too little sleep and too much butt wiping. Fortunately, new dad Owen O’Shea has a brilliant wife and great friends to help him out. He also has a cozy wingback to sit in and a big window to look out from, two small comforts that make those 3 a.m. feedings a hell of a lot easier … at least at first. It’s during one of those wee-hour feedings when Owen witnesses suspicious activity across the way that seems less idyllic-suburban-c...
Cathy Ace - Case of the Bereaved Butler ( WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 9)
March 14, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes - 117 MBThe Duke of Chellingworth’s beloved butler is grieving his brother’s death…but was it a really a tragic accident, or was it – as the man’s widow believes – murder? Mavis and the dowager Althea offer the services of the WISE Enquiries Agency to investigate, which puts one of their team in a dangerous situation. Meanwhile, Annie and Tudor are puzzled by a spate of petty thefts at their new pub, and Alexander must confront his largely secret past – possibly endangering his new persona and his r...
Lawrence Allan - Big F@!king Deal: A Jimmy Cooper Mystery (clean)
March 13, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBBest Indie Books of 2023 by The Independent Fiction Alliance 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award Finalist for Best Comedy Jimmy Cooper, a former child star and recovering addict, has gotten his second chance at fame as L.A.'s most popular private detective, but his latest case threatens to take it all away. Hotter than ever, everyone wants a piece of Jimmy, from Hollywood producers thirsting to take advantage of his fame to another former child star who wants to be just like him. And the...
Kemper Donovan - The Busy Body: A Witty Literary Mystery with a Stunning Twist
March 12, 2024 05:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBIt’s a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she’s retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her. Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy’s work ethic and steel-trap mind, not to ...
Noir at the Bar! #9 & 10 Booth,Dugoni,Gigl, Keliikoa, Goyette, Leigh!
March 09, 2024 06:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBAuthors Reading Tonight! Mary Keliikoa - Deadly Tides Robyn Gigl - Nothing But the Truth Robert Dugoni - A Killing on the Hill Cindy Goyette - Obey the Laws Claire Booth - Home Fires Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Alethea Lyons - The Hiding
March 08, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes - 69 MBArcane archivist Harper has always been plagued by dreams of grotesque creatures and bloody deaths. When she bumps into a ghostwalker in the Shambles and has a visceral experience of his execution, she knows it’s a foretelling. Yet fear of the Queen’s Guard stops her speaking out. When her vision indeed comes true, the unusual markings on the ghostwalker’s corpse, combined with his neatly excised vocal cords, send a ripple of terror through York. The witch hunt is on. As the body count rise...
Steve Berry - The Atlas Maneuver
March 07, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes - 65 MBFrom celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure, worth billions, known as Yamashita’s Gold. 1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States...
Doug Kari - The Berman Murders
March 06, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes - 99.7 MBFor true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "stirring account," and says, "Dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans." At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sheriff eventually discovered that Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered. As years passed and the double homicide remained unsolved, the Berman c...
McCracken Poston Jr. - Zenith Man
March 05, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes - 112 MBWas this small-town TV repair man “a harmless eccentric or a bizarre killer” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). For the first time, Alvin Ridley’s own defense attorney reveals the inside story of his case and trial in an extraordinary tale of friendship and an idealistic young attorney’s quest to clear his client’s name—and, in the process, rebuild his own life. In October 1997, the town of Ringgold in northwest Georgia was shaken by reports of a murder in its midst. A dead woman was found in ...
Noir at the Bar! Seattle #7 & 8 Hamilton, Ace, Glatzer, Allan, Carocari, Adina
March 02, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBTonight's Author readings are ; Cathy Ace - Corpse with the Opal Fingers Glen Erik Hamilton - Island of Thieves Hal Glatzer - The Nest Marco Carocari - Saints & Sinners Stephanie Adina - The Clockwork City Lawrence Allan - Big Fat Fuck-up Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Donna D. Conrad - The Last Magdalene
March 01, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes - 97.2 MBThe Last Magdalene does for the New Testament what The Red Tent did for the Old Testament. The temple of Asherah has existed in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, disguised as a benevolent society for widows and orphans. Within the sheltering walls, priestesses are taught to honor the goddess through rites of passion passed from mother to daughter and from priestess to priestess. Into this world, Miriam of Bethany, is born. Miriam longs to become The Magdalene, High Priestess of Asherah, as ...
Brian Stannard - Alcatraz Ghost Story
February 29, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes - 89.9 MBThe Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History––and the Woman He Loved Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood––except his own––as he cut a felonious path across the western United States, as the country hobbled through a recession in the aftermath of the First World War. Once impr...
Lena Sisco - Honest Answers
February 28, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 104 MBBECOME A MASTER AT NEGOTIATION AND COMMUNICATION Never go into an important conversation feeling unheard, unprepared, or uninformed again—apply the proven SISCO method for communication to become a master negotiator, trusted interviewer, and engaging conversationalist. No matter the conversation, detecting honesty and persuading others to be honest are some of the most valuable skills you can learn. With these skills, you can master your daily conversations and interactions with others. ...
Robert Swartwood - The Killing Room
February 27, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 115 MBFrom USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. While on vacation in Las Vegas, a businessman wakes up in a strange hotel room to find a dead woman in the bathtub. Panicked, he runs. But before he can get far, a pair of detectives stop him. Desperate, he tells them that he’s innocent. That there’s no way he killed the woman. That he’ll do anything not to go to prison. That’s when they offer him a way out...
Noir at the Bar! #5 & 6 Balter, Morris, L'Etoile, Karst, Phillips, Elias
February 24, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes - 126 MBTonight's Author readings: Gary Phillips - Unvarnished Michael Balter - Chasing Money Wanda Morris - All You Leave Behind James L'Etoile - Face of Greed Leslie Karst - Molton Death Gerald Elias - Murder on Holiday Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Greaney - The Chaos Agent
February 23, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 108 MBArtificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world’s leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest battlefield gamechanger since the creat...
Curtis Ippolito - Burying the Newspaper Man
February 22, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes - 71.7 MBA dead body. A dark past. An ordinary man with everything to lose. Marcus Kemp is a regular beat cop living a normal life in San Diego, California. Until the day he makes a shocking discovery: a dead body in the trunk of a stolen car. Worse, the victim turns out to be the man who abused him as a child. Marcus instinctively wants to help the killer get away with murder and, disregarding his police oath, will stop at nothing to make it happen. With both his job and freedom in jeopardy, his ...
Marcus James - Blackmore
February 21, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 108 MBWelcome to South Hill, a neighborhood of wealth, secrets, gracious Victorians, and austere manor homes overlooking the port of Fairhaven and the dark waters of Bellingham Bay. Seventeen year old Trevor Blackmoore has lived here his entire life, shunned and feared, along with the rest of his clan, by the elitist and superstitious families that surround them and who regard the Blackmoores as the devil's concubines. As a young clairvoyant dealing not only with the dark secrets of his family bu...
Gordon Greisman - The Devil’s Daughter
February 20, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBFrom Emmy-nominated screenwriter Gordon Greisman, The Devil’s Daughter is a noir thriller full of the best—and worst—of New York City in the 1950s. Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he’s headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett’s lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets,...
Noir at the Bar! Seattle Ep #3 & 4 John Copenhaver, Connie Berry, Rob Osler, James Hannah, Tracy Clark, Joe Clifford
February 17, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MBThis is a compilation of two episodes of Noir at the Bar! Seattle ! Hosts Alan R. Warren, John Copenhaver & Joe Goldberg! Tonight's readers are John Copenhaver reading from his 'Hall of Mirrors, Connie Berry from her ' A Collection of Lies, Tracy Clark reading from her novel 'Fall', Joe Clifford reading from his' Say My Name', James Hannah reading his short story 'They Shall Take Up Serpents', and Rob Osler reading his 'Cirque Du Slay'! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseo...
Bruce Borgos - The Bitter Past: A Mystery (Porter Beck Book 1)
February 16, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes - 91.3 MBIn the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is rel...
Matthew Blake - Anna O: A Novel
February 15, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes - 67 MBWhat if your nightmares weren’t really nightmares at all? We spend an average of thirty-three years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we are sleeping? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive—and she hasn’t woken up since. Dubbed “Sleeping Beauty” by the tabloids, Anna suffers from a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as “re...
Michael Benson - Filthy Murders : In the Era of Jack the Ripper
February 14, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MBA tremendous history lesson and essential reading for everyone in the Rochester area. You'll recognize the locations and find interest in how those places looked 140 years ago. Book tells the story of five murders, all taking place in the City of Rochester, N.Y., during the latter decades of the nineteenth century. The first story, which takes up the first half of the book, is about the home invasion murder of a young wife and mother. Her body is found in the cellar, a flour sack tied tightl...
Charles Beaumont - A Spy Alone
February 13, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes - 83.2 MBEveryone knows about the Cambridge Spies from the Fifties, identified and broken up after passing national secrets to the Soviets for years. But no spy ring was ever unearthed at Oxford. Because one never existed? Or because it was never found…? 2022: Former spy Simon Sharman is eking out a living in the private sector. When a commission to delve into the financial dealings of a mysterious Russian oligarch comes across his desk, he jumps at the chance. But as Simon investigates, worrying p...
Noir at the Bar! Seattle Ep#1 & 2 Judy Penz, Iona Whishaw, Winona Kent, Carl Vonderau, Adam Sikes & Ed Aymar!
February 10, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes - 93.3 MBThis is a compilation of the first two episodes of the Noir at the bar radio show heard on KKNW 1150 A.M. Seattle/Tacoma! Hosts Alan R. Warren, John Copenhaver & Joe Goldberg! Guests reading tonight are Judy Penz Sheluk reading from 'Skeletons in the Attic', Winona Kent reading from her 'Notes on a Missing G-String, Iona Whishaw reading from her 'To Track A Traitor', Carl Vonderau reading from his 'Saving Myles, Adam Sikes reading from his 'Landslide, and Ed Aymar reading his short story '...
Laury A. Egan - The Psychologist's Shadow
February 09, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes - 84 MBIn October 1992, Dr. Ellen Haskell begins a new therapy practice in Princeton after a tragic error with a former client. Demoralized by her failure, Ellen strives to restore her emotional and professional confidence. Her parents have departed for Greece, leaving Ellen alone in their secluded country house. As her clients are introduced through their individual sessions, Ellen becomes unnerved when she receives hang-up phone calls and a series of bizarre gifts from an anonymous admirer—first ...
Lawrence Kelter - Man-Killer: Gina Cototi Cases, Book I
February 08, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MB"Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum." –Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author Gina Marie Cototi is a feisty Sicilian sparkplug, a Brooklyn-based PI with a fondness for family, friends, and one roguishly handsome Casanova named Rocco Benelli. Hey, nobody's perfect. This headstrong sleuth drives a split-window '63 Corvette coupe and never, I mean never, misses Sunday dinner with Ma, Dad, and her sister Theresa. Broke, brooding, a...
Katelyn Marie Peterson - Led by Her Heart
February 07, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes - 56.9 MBLynn Callahan, a divorced single mom with her own party planning business, is content in her busy life until her ex husband, Drew, fails to pick up their seven-year-old son from school. Because Drew is a recovering drug addict, the police don’t believe he’s missing, he’s probably off on a bender somewhere, but she knows he wouldn’t relapse after eight clean years, so she hires a private investigator to take on the case. While helping Jake Connolly, she’s thrust into a life of mystery, drama,...
Brad Taylor - Dead Man's Hand : A Pike Logan Novel
February 06, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes - 67.2 MBTo finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukranian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian National Guard to root them out. It’s a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO—by assassinating a deputy minister of foreign affairs. After receiving intelligen...
Heather Levy - Hurt for Me
February 03, 2024 06:00 - 44 minutes - 71.7 MBA single mother’s brutal past threatens to destroy the new life she’s built in this suspenseful dark romance set in the underground world of kink. Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she’s running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae’s finally in control—literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City’...
Steve Urszenyi - Perfect Shot: A Thriller (Special Agent Alexandra Martel Book 1)
February 02, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes - 61.5 MBA former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend’s death uncovers a global nuclear threat, in Steve Urszenyi's Perfect Shot, the first in an electrifying new series featuring Special Agent Alexandra Martel. Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, she earned a reputation as one of the most renowned and decorated Army snipers in the service before stepping away. But when Alex, now ...
R. G. Belsky - Broadcast Blues (Clare Carlson Mystery Book 6)
February 01, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 72.8 MBWendy Kyle took secrets to her grave—now, Clare Carlson is digging them up New York City has no shortage of crime, making for a busy schedule for TV newswoman Clare Carlson. But not all crimes are created equal, and when an explosive planted in a car detonates and kills a woman, Clare knows it'll be a huge story for her. But it's not only about the story—Clare also wants justice for the victim, Wendy Kyle. Wendy had sparked controversy as an NYPD officer, ultimately getting kicked off the ...
Dr. Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes - A Fifth of the Story
January 31, 2024 06:00 - 36 minutes - 58.6 MBThere’s an attack on US soil, and Brock―an agent of the CIA―finds himself in the middle of the mess. He soon discovers that there’s been a breach that threatens not only to destroy the nation’s safety, but very possibly, Brock’s own life. In the race against the clock, Brock tries to keep his field officer’s wife and children safe and stay alive. In the midst of the chaos, Brock discovers one of his closest allies is a part of the dangerous intelligence breach responsible for a recent stri...
Christopher Packard - Lumpy's Gift
January 30, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes - 49.5 MBChildren have always struggled with the obligations of school, chores, practices, and other family responsibilities. Lumpy’s Gift is a delightful fable about how all those little trials help make it possible to find your true potential. In this story, Lumpy, a lump of clay, is taken from his home by a well-meaning potter who does “terrible” things to Lumpy. But by the end, Lumpy has become something extraordinary, something he never knew he wanted to be. The book includes a parent and teache...
Edwin Hill - Who To Believe
January 27, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes - 67.2 MBMonreith, Massachusetts, was once a small community of whalers and farmers. These days it’s a well-to-do town filled with commuters drawn to its rugged coastline and country roads. A peaceful, predictable place—until popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home. Suspicion naturally falls on Laurel’s husband, Simon, who had gambling debts that only her life insurance policy could fix. But there are other rumors too . . . Among the group of six friends gath...
Coy Hall - A Seance for Wicked King Death
January 26, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes - 65.8 MBIt’s 1956, and ex-con Royce Pembrook is struggling. When Anna Vogel, an old colleague, comes pleading for help, Royce is pulled back into a world of scammers and fraudulent séances. The reacquaintance is not by chance. Anna is setting up Royce to take the fall for something big. Advance Praise “Coy Hall hits a rare bull’s eye. Immersive period noir that is crisp, fresh, and propulsive. True to the times with light touches of a modern sensibility, A Séance for Wicked King Death is a bracing...
Roger Simpson - Halifax Resurrection
January 25, 2024 06:00 - 35 minutes - 57.6 MB“Dark and twisted, this addictive thriller will keep you guessing right up until the final chapter. Loved it!” — Rebecca Gibney, star of Halifax f.p., on Halifax: Transgression Based on Australia’s hugely popular Halifax f.p. television series, this is the second book in the thrilling Dr. Jane Halifax series. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Breakfield & Burkey - The Killer Enigma
January 24, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 72.5 MBOur digital world tracks everything. But smugglers are still winning! A former U.S. military lieutenant works for ePETRO to support business interests. Is he working both ends against the middle? Mike and Marge control ePETRO, a global oil broker with operations in London and New York. They each have a side hustle hidden from one another. Marge intends to smuggle products to sanctioned countries. Mike plays a dangerous game while building a retirement nest egg. An unexpected audit of ...
Bruce Hornidge - Loggerheads
January 23, 2024 06:00 - 22 minutes - 35.7 MBShamed by demonstrators as a “tree-killer,” Clayoquot Sound tree faller Bruce Hornidge faced soul-searing losses of identity and family livelihood. This gripping, irony-laden memoir of a life spent harvesting in the beauty of the forest deals frankly with the nearly invisible human fallout of the inevitable move away from a resource-based economy and the impact on one man’s psyche. Hornidge recalls his career as a faller in the West Coast forestry industry from the unique and sometimes irre...
Brian A. Nelson - The Great Unmaking (The Course of Empire Series Book 3)
January 20, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 76.8 MBA propulsive, mind-expanding thriller—and the world-shaking conclusion to the Course of Empire trilogy—about bold scientific dreams turning into nightmares … or perhaps new beginnings … After usurping control of the world’s most powerful military technology, General Chip Walden knows the endgame is near and tasks scientist Eric Hill with one final assignment. Helped by the love of his life, Jane Hunter, Hill is haunted by premonitions of a coming catastrophe as the technology he created tak...
Steve Truitt - The MindSet Chronicles: Book One - The Deletion
January 19, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes - 69.6 MBIn a world where artificial intelligence has become an integral part of daily life, the sudden death of all AI sends society into a tailspin – a disconnected, surreal post-AI period known as The Deletion. As the world struggles to come to terms with the loss, bad boy genius, Peter Eriksson, has invented a new form of interconnection called MindSet to reconnect the world in this strange new time. Conceived from a century-old concept, "Crowd Wisdom,” this revolutionary device links the minds o...
James Stejskal - Dead Hand
January 18, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes - 69.3 MBRussia has won the war in Ukraine and is eyeing the Baltics next. The world stands on the precipice of war. When a spy deep in the Kremlin contacts his handlers and mentions a code word for an insane Russian plan for winning a nuclear war, it sets off alarm bells in Washington. A legendary CIA officer is sent to meet him. Former Special Forces and CIA operator Joshua Devlin is coaxed out of retirement to be his backup, with promises that the job will be little more than babysitting. But th...
Kathleen Kaska - Murder at the Pontchartrain
January 17, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes - 47.4 MBI’m Sydney Lockhart. I solve murders, most of which I’m the primary suspect. My fiancée, Ralph Dixon, and I came to New Orleans to get married. Instead, he’s been arrested for a double murder, and I’m hunting for the real killer. Assisting me are a twelve-year-old voodoo queen, a ghost detective, and my crazy cousin Ruth. Wish me luck. I’ll need it. “Kathleen Kaska always delivers, and once again she doesn’t disappoint in Murder at the Pontchartrain, the sixth book in her delightful 1950s e...