Speaking of Mysteries

Speaking of Mysteries


Latest Episodes

Episode 256: Val McDermid
December 11, 2023

In Past Lying, the seventh novel in Val McDermids series featuring Karen Pirie, the actionor restriction thereofis in and about Edinburgh during lockdown in Spring 2020, as Karen and her team inves

Episode 255: Tess Gerritsen
October 30, 2023

Crime fiction fans rejoice: with The Spy Coast, Tess Gerritsen launches a new series featuring retired CIA Maggie Bird and her fellow former intelligence officers, all of whom now reside in Purity, Ma

Episode 254: Rebecca Hanover
October 23, 2023

In The Last Applicant, Rebecca Hanovers debut adult thriller, a parent desperate to secure her sons admission to an exclusive Manhattan private school, in Rebeccas words, goes there and stalks th

Episode 253: Lynn Hightower
August 02, 2023

The stakes couldnt be higher for Junie Lagarde, the protagonist in The Beautiful Risk, Lynn Hightowers new thriller. Her dog Leowho, as Junies hearing dog, is much more than a petsurvived the pla

Episode 252: Denise Mina
July 31, 2023

In a case of Herculean wordsmithing, Denise Mina is scheduled to publish two novels on August 1, 2023: The Second Murderer, which continues the story of Raymond Chandlers immortal Philip Marlowe; and

Episode 252: Denise Mina
July 28, 2023

Not to put too fine a point on it, but having two titles published on the same day is a Herculean authorial accomplishment. But such feats of wordsmithing are not surprising to fans of Denise Mina, wh

Episode 251: S.A. Cosby
July 17, 2023

Sheriff Titus Crown, the protagonist in All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosbys recently published thriller, is not a man to be trifled with. Hes a man who, when he ran andsurprising himself, wonthe el

Episode 250: Alison Gaylin
July 05, 2023

Fans of Robert B. Parkers extensive crime fiction universe, rejoice! Alison Gaylin is continuing the story of PI Sunny Randall, in Robert B. Parkers Bad Influence. And in Bad Influence, Sunnywhos

Episode 249: Jordan Harper
May 26, 2023

In Jordan Harpers Everybody Knows, black-bag publicist Mae Pruett doesnt worry about the truth, only The Story, because whether you call what she does picking up the pieces or placating The Beast, w

Episode 248: Alma Katsu
March 13, 2023

Part domestic suspense, part espionage thriller, Alma Katsu’s Red London—the follow-up to Red Widow—is all tension. Mildly disgraced CIA agent Lyndsey Duncan is working to rehabilitate her reputation