My Favorite Detective Stories
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsMy Favorite Detectives Stories is a short form interview podcast for listeners who want to be inspired, informed and entertained by great detective stories. We hear from investigators past and present about the type of investigations they perform, how they got into this niche and what they feel are the traits of a good investigator. They will share their favorites detective stories with us.
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Katie Tallo| My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 186
November 08, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBKatie studied Film and English at Carleton University, TV Broadcasting at Algonquin College and filmmaking at the prestigious Summer Institute of Film and Television and Women in the Director’s Chair. In the two decades that followed, Katie enjoyed an award-winning career as a screenwriter and director, collaborating on projects in animation, television and motion pictures. Supported by the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, her films screened at the San Francisco Internat...
Sarah Burr | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 185
November 01, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBThere's always murder and mystery in the works for Sarah. #FollowMe for Murder, first in the Trending Topic Mysteries, shines the spotlight on a social media influencer after she discovers a dead body in her clients' store, forcing her to untangle a web of secrets in her small, beachside town. Sarah is also the author of the award-winning paranormal cozy mystery You Can't Candle the Truth, first in the Glenmyre Whim Mysteries. Readers are introduced to candle shop owner Hazel Wickbury. Haze...
Catriona McPherson | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 184
October 25, 2022 11:51 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBCatriona was born in Scotland and lived there until 2010, then immigrated to California where she lives on Patwin ancestral land. A former academic linguist, she now writes full-time. Her multi-award-winning and national best-selling work includes: the DANDY GILVER historical detective stories, the LAST DITCH mysteries, set in California, and a strand of contemporary standalone novels including Edgar-finalist THE DAY SHE DIED and Mary Higgins Clark finalist STRANGERS AT THE GATE. She is a me...
Lori Duffy Foster | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 183
October 18, 2022 13:06 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBLori Duffy Foster is a former crime reporter who writes fiction and nonfiction from the hills of Northern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and four children. She was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where a part of her heart remains. Her short fiction has appeared in the journal Aethlon, and in the anthologies Short Story America and Childhood Regained. Her nonfiction has appeared in Healthy Living, Running Times, Literary Mama, Crimespree and Mou...
Ausma Khan | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 182
October 11, 2022 13:47 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBAusma Zehanat Khan is the author of The Unquiet Dead, published by St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books, and winner of the Barry Award, the Arthur Ellis Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Novel, as well as a 2016 Macavity Award finalist. Works in Khan's critically acclaimed Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series include The Language of Secrets, A Death in Sarajevo, Among the Ruins, and A Dangerous Crossing. In A Deadly Divide, the fifth and latest book in the s...
Paula Munier | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 181
October 04, 2022 09:30 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBPaula Munier is a literary agent and the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search was inspired by the real-life rescue of a little boy with autism who got lost in the woods. The Hiding Place debuted in March, 2021. Her latest Mercy Carr mystery, The Wedding Plot, releases July 19, 2022 through Minotaur Books. Paula credits the...
Marc Cameron | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 180
September 27, 2022 13:25 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBNew York Times bestselling author Marc Cameron’s Jericho Quinn Thriller Series debuted in 2011. Since then, he’s written eight Quinn novels and four Arliss Cutter novels featuring a deputy US marshal based in Alaska, including the most recent Cutter, BONE RATTLE, and the upcoming COLD SNAP (April 2022 from Kensington Publishing Corp.) Marc is the author of five Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan novels for the Tom Clancy estate, including the most recent, SHADOW OF THE DRAGON and the upcoming CHAIN OF CO...
BJ Magnani | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 179
September 20, 2022 11:31 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBBarbarajean Magnani, PhD, MD, FCAP—Professor of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and Medicine, and the former Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA—is internationally recognized for her expertise in clinical chemistry and toxicology. During her career, she received three Outstanding Speaker Awards from the Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC); and from the College of American Pathologists (CAP)/CAP Foundation, the 2012 Outstanding ...
Mariah Fredericks | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 178
September 13, 2022 11:46 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBMariah Fredericks was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives today with her family. She is a graduate of Vassar College with a BA in history. Her novel Crunch Time was nominated for an Edgar in 2007. Her Jane Prescott series, set in 1910s New York, has twice been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her next novel, The Lindbergh Nanny, will be published in November, 2022. Mariahfredericksbooks.com Today’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime t...
Dave Zeltserman | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 177
September 06, 2022 13:33 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBBoston-based author Dave Zeltserman's crime and horror novels include SMALL CRIMES, PARIAH, KILLER, OUTSOURCED, THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD, A KILLER'S ESSENCE, MONSTER, and THE BOY WHO KILLED DEMONS, and he's been published in seven languages. SMALL CRIMES has been made into a Netflix film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Molly Parker, Gary Cole, Robert Forster, and Jacki Weaver. THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD and OUTSOURCED are currently in film development. His books have been picked by NP...
Matt Cost | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 176
August 30, 2022 11:27 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBMatt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries. "Love in a Time of Hate" is the third historical by Cost. "Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War; At Every Hazard", was published in 2015, in which Emmett Collins grows into manhood during the Civil War. "I am Cuba" was ...
Deborah Lucy | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 175
August 23, 2022 11:31 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBDeborah Lucy was born in Southsea and bought up in Portsmouth, the island city. Her novels are the first and second in a series involving DI Temple. In her working life, Deb has been able to work alongside a number of senior investigating officers as they’ve investigated major crime, murder, missing persons, abduction and kidnaps. She’s been at the 7am starts and 3am finishes, the ‘golden hour’s’, the highs, the lows, the breakthroughs, arrests, the slog. The politics. For three years she w...
Cathi Stoler | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 174
August 16, 2022 12:09 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBCathi Stoler is an Amazon Best Selling author. Her new Urban Thriller, LAST CALL, the 2nd book in the Murder on the Rocks Mystery series, featuring The Corner Lounge bar owner, Jude Dillane, was published in November 2020 by Level Best Books. The third book in the series, STRAIGHT UP, was released in November 2021. Her series, with Blackjack player, Nick Donahue, includes the novel OUT OF TIME, and the novella, NICK OF TIME. She is also the author of the three-volume Laurel & Helen New York ...
Wendall Thomas | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 173
August 09, 2022 12:04 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBWendall Thomas teaches in the Graduate Film School at UCLA, lectures internationally on screenwriting, and has worked as an entertainment reporter, development executive, script consultant, and film and television writer. Her first Cyd Redondo novel, Lost Luggage, was nominated for the Lefty and Macavity Awards for Best Debut Mystery of 2017. Her second, Drowned Under, was nominated for a Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery of 2019 and an Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original and Fogged Off ...
Eddie Frierson | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 172
August 02, 2022 11:59 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBA native of Nashville, Tennessee, Eddie helped pitch his Hillwood High School baseball team to a State Championship in 1977. He then threw collegiately for the UCLA Bruins. While at UCLA he obtained his degree in Theatre Arts and by-passed the dream of a professional baseball career in order to pursue his love for acting. With his acclaimed one man show “MATTY” Frierson combines the best of both worlds and, as an “Honorary Member” of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, he h...
Sherry Harris | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 171
July 26, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBSherry Harris is the Agatha Award nominated author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mystery series and the Chloe Jackson Sea Glass Saloon mysteries. Sherry is a past president of Sisters in Crime, a member of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime, the New England Chapter of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Sherry loves books, beaches, bars, and bargain hunting — not necessarily in that order. She is also a patent holding inventor. Sherry and her husband are living in No...
Sarah Stewart Taylor | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 170
July 19, 2022 16:40 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBSarah Stewart Taylor is the author of the Sweeney St. George series and the Maggie D'arcy series. She grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont and Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied Irish Literature. She has worked as a journalist and writing teacher and now lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries. https://www.sarahstewarttaylor.com/ Today’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thri...
Andrew Patterson | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 169
July 12, 2022 11:45 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBA. B. Patterson is an award-winning Australian writer who knows first-hand about corruption, power, crime and sex. He was a Detective Sergeant, working in paedophilia and vice, and later he was a Chief Investigator with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. Born in Sydney, he grew up in Europe, returning to Australia as an adult and commencing his career in law enforcement, and other government agencies. He lives in Sydney and loves to holiday in France. Harry’s World was his ...
Joanna Schaffhausen | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 168
July 05, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBJoanna Schaffhausen wields a mean scalpel, skills she developed in her years studying neuroscience. She has a doctorate in psychology, which reflects her long-standing interest in the brain―how it develops and the many ways it can go wrong. Previously, she worked as a scientific editor in the field of drug development. Prior to that, she was an editorial producer for ABC News, writing for programs such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She lives in the Boston area with ...
Edith Maxwell | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 167
June 28, 2022 13:18 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBEdith was first recognized for her fiction writing at the age of eleven. She won the Pasadena Star News contest for her short story, “Viking Girl” and walked away with the prize money of $2.00! In 2013 she left high-tech to write mystery fiction full-time and is now living her dream. Edith is a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime, and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She is also a long-time member of the Society of Friends (Quaker) and a past Clerk of Amesbury Friends Meeting. Her...
Emilya Naymark | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 166
June 21, 2022 13:26 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBEmilya Naymark was born in a country that no longer exists, escaped with her parents, lived in Italy for a bit, and ended up in New York, which promptly became a love and a muse. She is the author of the novels Hide in Place and the upcoming Behind the Lie, out February 8, 2022. Her short stories appear in A Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta, Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2...
Max Folsom | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 165
June 14, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBA writer who never dreamed of writing fiction? An avid reader all her life, an editor, reviewer, speech writer, Max Folsom never envisioned herself an author, a mystery writer. “It was an impossible concept to me,” she says. “I couldn’t conceive of how an author would come up with a story and all its details, just as I couldn’t understand how a composer could hear the music and put it to paper. But one afternoon sitting in the back yard, the scene of private detective Baker Somerset finding...
Shannon Baker | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 164
June 07, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBShannon Baker lives on the edge of the desert in Tucson with her crazy Weimaraner and her favorite human. Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She lived in Flagstaff for several years and worked for the Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don’t resort to murder. She is the proud recipient of Writer of the Year for 2014 and 2017-18 awarded by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. https://shannon-baker.com/ ...
Andy Straka | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 163
May 31, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBThe first hint of Andy Straka's future as a mystery writer came at the age of four when he appeared at his small-town neighbor's back door carrying a butcher's knife. Thankfully, the neighbor called Andy's mother instead of social services. A bestselling, award-winning author, Andy's novels include the recently released Split City, the first in a new amateur sleuth series, the #1 bestselling private eye novel A Witness Above (part of the Shamus Award-winning Frank Pavlicek series), and a num...
John Gaspard | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 162
May 24, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBJohn is author of the Eli Marks mystery series as well as four other stand-alone novels, "The Greyhound of the Baskervilles," "A Christmas Carl," "The Sword & Mr. Stone" and "The Ripperologists." He also writes the Como Lake Players mystery series, under the pen name Bobbie Raymond. In real life, John’s not a magician, but he has directed six low-budget features that cost very little and made even less – that’s no small trick. He’s also written multiple books on the subject of low-budget fil...
Lori Robbins | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 161
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBBrooklyn-born Lori Robbins’ debut novel, Lesson Plan for Murder: A Master Class Mystery, won the Silver Falchion for Best Cozy Mystery and was a finalist in the Readers’ Choice and Indie Book Awards. Murder in First Position, is the first in her new On Pointe Mystery Series, published by Level Best Books. Her next novel, Murder in Second Position came out in November of 2021. Robbins is also working on a second Master Class Mystery, Linked to Murder. She is a vice president of the New York c...
Edwin Hill| My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 160
May 10, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBEdwin Hill is the author of the critically-acclaimed Hester Thursby mystery series, the first of which, Little Comfort, was an Agatha Award finalist, a selection of the Mysterious Press First Mystery Club and a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selection. Formerly the vice president and editorial director for Bedford/St. Martin's (Macmillan), he now teaches at Emerson College and has written for the LA Review of Books, The Life Sentence, Publisher's Weekly, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine....
Julie Hennrikus | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 159
May 03, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJulie is a published mystery writer. She writes the Clock Shop Mystery series under the name Julianne Holmes and the Theater Cop series as J.A. Hennrikus. She uses the pen name Julia Henry for the Garden Squad Series and her fifth in the series is due out in the fall of 2022. She is on the board of Sisters in Crime, and a member of Mystery Writers of America and the New England chapter of Sisters in Crime.She blogs regularly with the Wicked Authors. https://jhauthors.com/ Today’s episod...
Elaine Isaak | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 158
April 26, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBAuthor and editor Elaine Isaak credits first grade teacher Mrs. Krackhardt for nurturing an early enthusiasm for reading by allowing her to stay inside and read during recess—and she hasn’t looked back! She withdrew from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was studying sculpture, to pursue her own interests in business and writing. In addition to the many novels detailed on the Rocinante Books site, her stories have appeared in anthologies ranging from Warrior Women (Prime Books, 2...
Michael Craven | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 157
April 19, 2022 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBMichael Craven is a freelance advertising writer and creative director. He has worked at some of the country’s most creative agencies on both national and global accounts, and has won numerous industry awards.Prior to his freelance career, he was an executive creative director at kbs, part of the team running BMW and BMW Global. He was also a VP/CD at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, working on Microsoft, Burger King, Coke Zero and more.Michael is also the author of three crime novels, all publish...
Tessa Wegert | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 156
April 12, 2022 12:40 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBTessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant series of mysteries, which includes Death in the Family, The Dead Season, and Dead Wind (2022). A former freelance journalist, Tessa’s work has appeared in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, and The Economist. Tessa grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Coastal Connecticut. Tessa is a member of International Thriller Writers (ITW), Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime New England, and Sisters in Crime New Y...
Bridget Finnegan | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 155
April 05, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBBridget Finnegan is an illustrator, designer, animator, publisher and author. A versatile illustrator and designer, Bridget has been able to stretch her legs creatively over her career with projects including the creation of packaging, dolls, websites, maps, technical illustrations and multifaceted advertising campaigns. She has illustrated, written and published several books under her company’s imprint, Dawdle Publishing, LLC. Her novel Odettes sports a unique setting and very interesting ...
Dale Phillips | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 154
March 29, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBDale T Phillips is a New England writer, spent his formative years in Maine, and has lived and worked in a number of different places. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono, studied writing with Stephen King, and has worked for over twenty-five years as a Technical Writer in a number of major industries, translating the work of software developers into clear instructions for using computer software.He has published novels, over 70 short stories, collections, articles, jokes, a...
Sarah Smith | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 153
March 22, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBShe studied English at Harvard, where she spent Saturdays in the library reading mysteries. She studied film in London and Paris. Her bestselling series of Edwardian mysteries, starring Alexander von Reisden and Perdita Halley, has been published in 14 languages. Two of the books have been named New York Times Notable Books. The Vanished Child, the first book in the series, is being made into a musical in Canada. Crimes and Survivors, about the Titanic and the people who survived her wreck, ...
Jeffery James Higgins | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 152
March 15, 2022 13:40 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBJeffrey James Higgins is a former reporter and retired supervisory DEA special agent who writes thriller novels, creative nonfiction, short stories, and essays. He has wrestled an IED away from a suicide bomber, fought the Taliban in combat, and chased terrorists across five continents. He received both the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Heroism and the DEA Award of Valor. He lives with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia. His most recent novel Unseen: Evil lurks among us follows the ...
Lisa Grey Re-air | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 151
March 08, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.7 MBLisa Gray is an Amazon #1, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She previously worked as the Chief Scottish Football Writer at the Press Association and books columnist at the Daily Record Saturday Magazine. Her debut novel, Thin Air, was a Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestseller and was Amazon.com’s third-bestselling Kindle eBook of 2019. Bad Memory was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and long-listed for the McIlvanney Prize. Dark Highway, the third book ...
Karen Odden | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 150
March 01, 2022 13:27 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBKaren Odden received her Ph.D. in English literature from New York University and subsequently taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her first novel, A Lady in the Smoke, was a USA Today bestseller and A Dangerous Duet and A Trace of Deceit have won awards for historical mystery and historical fiction. Her fourth mystery, Down a Dark River, became available November 9, 2021. A member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, Karen was awarded a 2021 Grant from the Arizo...
James Ziskin | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 149
February 22, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBJames Ziskin is the author of the Anthony® and Macavity Award-winning Ellie Stone Mysteries. His books have also been finalists for the Edgar®, Barry, and Lefty awards. A linguist by training, he studied Romance languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing his graduate degree, he worked in New York as a photo-news producer and writer, and then as Director of NYU’s Casa Italiana. He spent fifteen years in the Hollywood post production industry, running large in...
Alafair Burke | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 148
February 15, 2022 14:54 - 35 minutes - 33 MBAlafair Burke is an American crime novelist, professor of law, and legal commentator. She is a New York Times bestselling author of 18 crime novels, including The Ex, The Wife, and The Better Sister, and two series—one featuring NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher, and the other, Portland, Oregon, prosecutor Samantha Kincaid.[1] Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She currently lives in New York City and is a professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law. She has...
Bruce Coffin | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 147
February 08, 2022 12:31 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBBruce is the award-winning author of the bestselling Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director's Award, the highest award a non-agent can receive. Winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchio...
Sybil Johnson | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 146
February 01, 2022 12:40 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MBSybil Johnson grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She fell in love with mysteries reading Encyclopedia Brown and Nancy Drew. In junior high, she discovered Agatha Christie. After high school graduation, Sybil moved south to attend the University of Southern California, majoring in Computer Science. After twenty years of designing and writing code and managing programmers and software development projects, she turned to a life of crime writing.Her short fiction has appeared in Mysterical-E, Spi...
David Hodges | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 145
January 25, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBA former superintendent with Thames Valley Police, David Hodges is a prolific crime writer and author of fourteen crime novels plus an autobiography on his life in the police service. His debut crime novel received critical media acclaim and a welcome accolade from Inspector Morse's creator, the late great Colin Dexter, and since then he has become the author of several successful stand-alone thrillers, including BLAST and TARGET (formerly Endeavour Media, now Lume Books). In particular, hi...
Judy Murray | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 144
January 18, 2022 12:04 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBJudy Murray is a real estate broker with a not-so-secret passion for deals, divas, and danger. Her passion for mysteries began with smart girls like Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, grew deeper with not-to-be-ignored women like Miss Marple and Nora Charles. Judy incorporates her extensive knowledge of all things real estate with a passion for the Chesapeake Bay where she now lives Her debut novel Murder in the Master introduces Helen Morrisey, a sharp-tongued, gutsy and mature woman long on lo...
Jule Selbo | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 143
January 11, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBJule Selbo is novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Her debut crime mystery novel, 10 DAYS: A DEE ROMMEL MYSTERY (Pandamoon Publishing, August 2021) is the first in a series. She worked in the Los Angeles film world for two decades, writing for HBO’s Prison Stories, for George Lucas’ Young Indiana Jones, Aaron Spelling’s Melrose Place, Universal’s Hercules, Fox’s Space Above and Beyond, Warner Bros, Life Goes On and other series. Film credits include Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame Part De...
Marcy McCreary | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 142
January 04, 2022 13:35 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBAfter graduating from George Washington University with a B.A. in American Literature and Political Science, Marcy pursued a career in the marketing communications field for 25 years and held roles in marketing and sales at various magazine publishing companies and content marketing agencies. When she was laid off from a job a few years ago and looking for something to keep her busy and challenged, she decided to write a novel, The Deeper You Dig. Her second novel, The Disappearance of Trudy...
Colin Conway | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 141
November 16, 2021 14:40 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers available right now. You can get them through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share You can also sign up for the newsletter at http://www.JohnHoda.com to get a free copy of John’s new novella Liberty City Nights. Colin Conway is the author of The Cozy Up series which pushes the envelope of the cozy genre. Libby Klein, author of the Poppy McAllister series, sa...
Caroline Mitchell | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 140
November 02, 2021 12:45 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers available right now. You can get them through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share You can also sign up for the newsletter at http://www.JohnHoda.com to get a free copy of John’s new novella Liberty City Nights. A New York Times, USA Today and Amazon No.1 bestselling author, Caroline Mitchell originates from Ireland and now lives with her family on the coast...
Edmund Pickett | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 139
October 19, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers available right now. You can get them through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share You can also sign up for the newsletter at http://www.JohnHoda.com to get a free copy of John’s new novella Liberty City Nights. Edmund Pickett was born and raised in the Rocky Mountain region of the western United States, in a town of 12,000 people. I've tried living in more cro...
David Swinson | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 138
October 05, 2021 11:47 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers available right now. You can get them through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share You can also sign up for the newsletter at http://www.JohnHoda.com to get a free copy of John’s new novella Liberty City Nights. David Swinson grew up in Washington, DC, Beirut, Mexico City and Stockholm, the son of a foreign service officer. He is a retired police detective from...
Dan Padavona | My Favorite Detective Stories Episode 137
September 22, 2021 11:48 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers available right now. You can get them through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share You can also sign up for the newsletter at http://www.JohnHoda.com to get a free copy of John’s new novella Liberty City Nights. Thriller and horror author Dan Padavona grew up in Cortland, New York, outside the beautiful Finger Lakes, where he earned degrees from SUNY Cortland a...