My Favorite Detective Stories

There'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. Hazel has a secret. She knows when someone is going to die. This power, known as a "whim," helps Hazel uncover a murder in her hometown. Together with her aunt, Hazel aims to shine a light on the killer before they snuff her out. Sarah's latest Court of Mystery novel, Innocence Imprisoned, features her fearless heroine, Duchess Jacqueline Xavier, first introduced in The Ducal Detective Mysteries. This is the eighth book in the Court of Mystery series. Sarah is a member of Sisters in Crime, currently serving as the social media guru for the NY-TriState Chapter. She is also the creative mind behind BookstaBundles, a content creation service for authors. When she’s not spinning up stories, Sarah is singing Broadway show tunes, video gaming, and enjoying walks with her dog, Eevee. https://www.saraheburr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/authorsaraheburr/ https://www.facebook.com/authorsaraheburr/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Catriona 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 member of Mystery Writers of America, The Crimewriters’ Association, The Society of Authors and Sisters in Crime, of which she is a former national president. http://catrionamcpherson.com/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063049789492 Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Lori 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 Mountain Home magazines. A Dead Man’s Eyes, the first in the Lisa Jamison mystery/suspense series, is her debut novel.  Book two in the series, Never Broken, came out in April of 2022. Her first standalone thriller, Never Let Go, releases in December of 2022. She is also author of Raising Identical Twins: The Unique Challenges and Joys of the Early Years. Her nonfiction book, Raising Identical Twins: The Unique Challenges and Joys of the Early Years, is available from Amazon. Lori is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, The Historical Novel Society and Pennwriters. She is also vice president of the Knoxville (PA) Public Library board. https://loriduffyfoster.com/author/loriduffyfoster/ https://www.facebook.com/loriduffyfosterauthor https://www.instagram.com/lori.duffy.foster/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Ausma 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 series, Detectives Khattak and Getty investigate a mosque shooting in Quebec, and explore the after-effects of a rising tide of Islamophobia in both the province and the nation.  CrimeReads named Khan one of the Rising Stars of Crime Fiction in the 2010s, and both CrimeReads and Library Journal named A Deadly Divide one of the best crime novels of 2019. Khan has been featured in a Shondaland profile of Muslim Women Authors Everyone Should Know, and as Ms. Chatelaine in Chatelaine magazine. Most recently, she was profiled on Public Radio International. She frequently appears on CBC Radio, and has been interviewed by the BBC World Service and BBC Radio Woman's Hour, as well as appearing on CTV Your Morning, CBS and The Agenda.  The Bloodprint, Ausma Zehanat Khan's fantasy debut, has been hailed as "one of the year's finest fantasy debuts". Published by Harper Voyager US & UK, The Bloodprint is Book One of The Khorasan Archives, a four-book epic fantasy series, that was followed by The Black Khan in October 2018, and The Blue Eye in 2019. In 2019, Khan was a Sirens Guest of Honor. The Bladebone, the epic conclusion of The Khorasan Archives was published in October 2020. Khan's non-fiction book, Ramadan, for middle-grade students, was published by Orca Books as part of the Origins series in Spring 2018.  It was selected as a Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2019, and as the Children's Literature Roundtable of Canada's 2019 Information Book Award Honour Book.  Ramadan has also been nominated for a Hackmatack Children's Choice Award. Khan's nonfiction essay, "Origins and Destinations", was published by Seal Press in the crime writers' anthology, Private Investigations, edited by Victoria Zackheim, in 2020. She also has the short story, "The Once and Future Qadi", forthcoming in the Sword Stone Table anthology, and a crime story in a new BAME anthology. ​ A frequent lecturer and commentator, Khan holds a Ph.D. in international human rights law with a research specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans, from Osgoode Hall Law School. She completed her LL.B. and LL.M. at the University of Ottawa, and her B.A. in English literature & sociology at the University of Toronto. Formerly, she served as Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl magazine. The first magazine to address a target audience of young Muslim women, Muslim Girl re-shaped the conversation about Muslim women in North America. The magazine was the subject of two documentaries, and hundreds of national and international profiles and interviews, including CNN International, Current TV, and Al Jazeera "Everywoman".  Khan practiced immigration law in Toronto and has taught international human rights law at Northwestern University, as well as human rights and business law at York University. She is a long-time community activist and writer, and currently lives in Colorado with her husband. Khan has a new crime series forthcoming with Minotaur Books which features American Muslim detective Inaya Rahman. Inaya investigates homicides in minority communities in Colorado with her partner Catalina Hernandez, and independent monitor Areesha Adams - a trio of Muslim, Latina and Black investigators who work to change a system impervious to reform from both the inside and the outside. The series debut, Blackwater Falls, will be published in 2022. https://www.ausmazehanatkhan.com/ Twitter: @ausmaehanat Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Paula 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 hero dogs of Mission K9 Rescue, her own rescue dogs, and a deep love of New England as her series’ major influences. Paula has also written three popular books on writing: Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, and Writing with Quiet Hands, as well as Fixing Freddie and Happier Every Day. https://paulamunier.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

New 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 COMMAND (November 2021 from GP Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House.) A retired Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal, Marc spent nearly thirty years in law enforcement. He holds a second-degree black belt in jujitsu and is a certified law enforcement scuba diver and man-tracking instructor. The job of a deputy US marshal is extremely varied. Marc’s career focused primarily on dignitary protection and fugitive operations. As a member of the rural Tactical Tracking Unit for the US Marshals District of Alaska, Marc routinely tracked lost hikers, hunters, and fugitives in the vast Alaska bush. His assignments have taken him from Alaska to Manhattan, Canada to Mexico and dozens of points in between. Originally from Texas, Marc is an avid outdoorsman, sailor, and adventure motorcyclist.  He and his wife live in Alaska where they raised their three children.   https://marccameronbooks.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Barbarajean 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 Communicator Award, the 2014 Distinguished Patient Care Award, and the 2014 Gene and Jean Herbek Humanitarian Award. Dr. Magnani also received the Distinguished Career in Teaching Award from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 2019.  In addition, she has been named a Top Doctor in Boston magazine and was included by Castle Connelly in Exceptional Women in Medicine. Dr. Magnani was also named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Laboratory Medicine Professionals in the World by The Pathologist.   Dr. Magnani—the former Chair of the CAP Toxicology Committee and member of the CAP Council on Scientific Affairs—has served as the member-at-large of the TDM and Toxicology Division of the AACC and as an editor of Clinical and Forensic Toxicology News. Dr. Magnani is also one of the editors of The Clinical Toxicology Laboratory: Contemporary Practice of Poisoning Evaluation, 2nd edition (AACC Press), and Clinical Toxicology Testing: A Guide for Laboratory Professionals, 2nd edition (CAP Press).   Her works of fiction include Lily Robinson and the Art of Secret Poisoning (nVision Press), and the Dr. Lily Robinson series, The Queen of All Poisons, The Power of Poison, and A Message in Poison (Encircle Publications).  https://www.bjmagnani.com/ Be sure to signup for News, Books & Poisons https://mailchi.mp/3621100eb413/news-books-poisons-from-author-bj-magnani Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Mariah 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. http://www.Mariahfredericksbooks.com Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Boston-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 NPR, the Washington Post, American Library Association, Booklist, and WBUR as best novels of the year, and his Julius Katz mystery stories has won a Shamus, Derringer and two Ellery Queen Readers Choice awards. Dave also writes the Morris Brick thrillers (DERANGED, CRAZED, MALICIOUS, CRUEL, UNLEASHED) under the pseudonym Jacob Stone. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/Dave-Zeltserman/e/B001JP7OEU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Matt 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 published in 2020. It was recently awarded the silver award for historical fiction from Kops-Fetherling. Cost has also published the Mainely Mystery series including "Mainely Power" (the MHC Read ME fiction book of the year), "Mainely Fear", and "Mainely Money". The fourth book in the series, "Mainely Angst", will be published in January of 2022. He has begun the Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Trap series with "Wolfe Trap" and "Mind Trap" "Mouse Trap" will be published in the spring of 2022 and "Cosmic Trap" in the fall of 2022. Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing. https://www.mattcost.net/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Deborah 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 worked in the missing adults and children arena, with police, government policy advisers and charities.  Latterly, she conducted ‘know your customer’ inquiries for international blue chip companies. She has a master’s degree in historical research. https://www.deborahlucy.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Cathi 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 Mystery series, which includes TELLING LIES, KEEPING SECRETS, and THE HARD WAY, and a three-time finalist, and winner of the 2015 Derringer for Best Short Story, "The Kaluki Kings of Queens". Very involved in the crime writing world, Cathi is a member of Sisters in Crime New York/Tri-State, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. https://www.cathistoler.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Wendall 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 has been nominated for Best Humorous Mystery of 2021. Her short fiction appears in the crime anthologies Ladies Night (2015), Last Resort (2017), and the Anthony nominated Murder-A-Go-Go’s (2019).

A 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 has gone farther in baseball through the stage than he ever could have on the field.  MATTY was the first outside event ever invited to perform at the HOF. For 14 years he was the voice of PETCO Pet Stores and he is also a sought after narrator of audio books. www.eddiefrierson.com  Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Sherry 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 Northern Virginia until they figure out where they want to move to next. https://sherryharrisauthor.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Sarah 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 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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

A. 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 first book in 2015, and it won several awards internationally.  In late 2018, the sequel, Harry's Quest, hit the shelves.  He has had a number of short stories published in Switchblade magazine in the US.  He is currently working on further short stories, the next Harry novel, Harry's Grail, as well as several other projects. http://www.abpatterson.com.au/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Joanna 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 her husband, daughter, and an obstreperous basset hound named Winston Winner 2016, Mystery Writers of America/St. Martin’s Minotaur First Crime Novel Award https://www.joannaschaffhausen.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Edith 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 art story was featured in the National Endowment for the Arts 50th anniversary celebration. Edith blogs with five other New England mystery authors at WickedAuthors.com who were featured in the Boston Globe.She also blogs at Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen on the second and fourth Fridays of the month. https://edithmaxwell.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Emilya 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 2017,  When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads massive quantities of psychological thrillers, suspense, and crime fiction. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family. https://www.amazon.com/Emilya-Naymark/e/B07XX96LCB/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1 Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

A 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 the dead body at her office came to me full blown.” My husband said, “Write it down and see what happens.” A member of Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime, and the League of Vermont Writers she writes a column in the quarterly Sherlockian journal GROANS, CRIES AND BLEATINGS, and was a finalist in both the 2018 Daphne Du Maurier Award for excellence in unpublished Mystery/Suspense, and the 2020 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished Crime Novel. She is currently at work on her second Somerset novel, SEARCHING FOR PETER GRIFFITHS.  Married to a retired Canadian Military Officer, and owner of a large orange striped cat, she divides her time between their Ottawa Centretown apartment, and a stone house in Vermont. She drives a burnt orange Mini Cooper with black racing stripes. https://maxfolsom.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Shannon 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/

The 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 number of other crime novels and thrillers. A past finalist for the Agatha and the Anthony Awards, he is also the co-author of the inspirational memoir The Reason for Tears by Tony Weedor. Andy is a former college basketball player and licensed falconer. A graduate of Williams College, he holds an MFA from Lindenwood University, is a three time judge for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and also co-founded the popular Crime Wave program at the annual Virginia Festival of the Book. Rumor also has it that he hails from upstate New York, where he often spent Sunday afternoons, growing up, bowling with his parents and identical twin brother. https://www.andystraka.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

John 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 filmmaking. Ironically, they’ve made more than the films.Those books ("Fast, Cheap and Under Control" and "Fast, Cheap and Written That Way") are available in eBook, Paperback and audiobook formats. John lives in Minnesota and shares his home with his lovely wife, several dogs, a few cats and a handful of pet allergies. Eli Marks Website:  http://www.elimarksmysteries.com  Eli Marks Podcast: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/eli-marks-podcast All Other Books:  https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Brooklyn-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 chapter of Sisters in Crime and is a member of both Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers.Robbins began dancing at age 16 and launched her professional career three years later. She studied modern dance at the Martha Graham School and ballet at the New York Conservatory of Dance. Robbins performed with a number of regional modern and ballet companies, including Ballet Hispanico, the Des Moines Ballet, and the St. Louis Concert Ballet. After ten very lean years as a dancer she attended Hunter College, graduating summa cum laude with a major in British Literature and a minor in Classics. The mother of six, Robbins has vast experience with the homicidal tendencies everyday life inspires. https://www.lorirobbins.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Edwin 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. He lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts with his partner Michael and their lab, Edith Ann. https://www.edwin-hill.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Julie 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 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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Author 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, 2016) to Fantasy for the Throne (Gray Rabbit, 2018). Elaine had an extensive writing credits to her name in multiple genres both fiction and non-fiction. http://rocinantebooks.com/about/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Michael 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 published by Harper Collins. THE DETECTIVE & THE CHINESE HIGH-FIN (2016), THE DETECTIVE & THE PIPE GIRL (2014), and BODY COPY (2009). He has been nominated for the Nero Wolfe Award honoring excellence in mystery fiction, and has twice been nominated for the Shamus Award for best P.I. novel of the year. THE DETECTIVE & THE PIPE GIRL was at one point the #1 selling private eye novel on amazon, besting more than 15,000 other titles.

Tessa 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 York. https://www.tessawegert.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Bridget 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 private detective Jessamyn Jakes. Bridget has a degree in photography from Washington University and an MBA from Plymouth State University. She lives in Durham, NH with her family.

​​Dale 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, and poetry, and has appeared on stage, television, and in Throg, an independent feature film.

She 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, was published right in the middle of the pandemic--a good time to think about survival. Sarah’s young adult ghost thriller, The Other Side of Dark, won both the Agatha (for best YA mystery of the year) and the Massachusetts Book Award for best YA book of the year. Her Chasing Shakespeares, a novel about the Shakespeare authorship, has been called “the best novel about the Bard since Nothing like the Sun” (Samuel R. Delany) and has been turned into a play. Sarah lives in Boston with her family and not enough cats. She is a member of the Sisters in Crime Education Committee and the Strong Women: Strange Worlds steering committee. She's also a member of Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.

Jeffrey 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 story of rookie Homicide Detective Malachi Wolf, as he investigates a string of murders in Washington, DC and uncovers both a vigilante killer and a terrorist conspiracy-making himself a target. https://jeffreyjameshiggins.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Lisa 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 in the Jessica Shaw series, was published in November 2020. Lisa now writes full-time. https://lisagraywriter.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Karen 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 Arizona Commission on the Arts. Karen currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband, her two children, and her ridiculously cute rescue beagle, Rosy.

James 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 international operations in the subtitling/localization and visual effects fields. His international experience includes two years working and studying in France, extensive time in Italy, and more than three years in India. He speaks Italian and French. James lives in Boston.  https://jameswziskin.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Alafair 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 served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America and as president of its New York chapter. In 2017, she was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Authors Guild Foundation. In 2014, publisher Simon & Schuster announced that Mary Higgins Clark and Burke were collaborating on the Under Suspicion series, featuring an intrepid television journalist who reinvestigates cold cases.[6] In 2017, Burke was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel for her book, The Ex. Burke currently serves as the President of Mystery Writers of America and is the first woman of color to be elected to that position.

Bruce 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 Falchion Awards for Best Procedural and Best Investigator, and the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel, Bruce was also a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel. His short fiction appears in several anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016.   Bruce is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He is a regular contributor to Murder Books blog.   http://www.brucerobertcoffin.com/ Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Sybil 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, Spinetingler Magazine, King’s River Life Magazine, Crimson Dagger, and Silver Moon Magazine.A past president of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles, Sybil co-chaired the 2011 California Crime Writers Conference. She also served as We Love Libraries Coordinator for SinC National. In her spare time, she enjoys studying ancient languages (Ancient Egyptian and Coptic are her current areas of interest), and spending time with friends and family.

A 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, his Somerset Murder Series (Joffe Books), set on the mist-shrouded Somerset Levels in England and featuring the exploits of feisty detective, Kate, and her easy-going partner, Hayden, has gone from strength to strength, attracting keen interest in Europe, the USA and Australia as well as in Britain, with the latest novel in the series, STALKER ON THE LEVELS, being published by Joffe Books in November 2021 in time for Christmas. Six of his previous novels are available on Audible for the sight challenged and those who prefer to listen rather than read, and most of his books can also be obtained in paperback and digital format on Kindle.  David has two married daughters and four grandchildren and lives in the UK with his wife, Elizabeth, where he continues to indulge his passion for thriller writing and to pursue his keen interest in the countryside.  He is a member of the Crime Writers Association, The Crime Readers Association, The Society of Authors and International Thriller Writers Inc. Today’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. Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Judy 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 loyalty and short on romance.

Jule 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 Deux, Cinderella II, Columbia Pictures Hard Promises and more. Her theatre plays include Boxes (produced in regional theaters, including its most recent production in Portland Maine, was recipient of five Los Angeles Theater nominations, winning two) and Isolate, (winner of Best Play in Hollywood’s Female Playwrights). She also earned a PhD in Film at University of Exeter, writing her dissertation (now a book) Film Genres for the Screenwriter, which delineates tropes and expectations the audience/reader has for each story genre. Jule became a tenured professor of film at California State University. She moved to Portland Maine a few years ago to concentrate on writing books. Her book, Find Me In Florence garnered First Place Prize in the 2019 Chatelaine Awards/Romance and Women’s Fiction. Her historical fiction books include Dreams of Discovery: The Life of Explorer John Cabot and Breaking Barriers: The Life of Laura Bassi (finalist for 2020 Goethe Award).

After 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 Solomon (CamCat Publishing) was published on September 7, 2021. She is  currently writing a sequel to this novel.

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, says COZY UP TO DEATH is “Not your grandma’s cozy.” He is also the creator of The 509 Crime Stories, a series of novels set in Eastern Washington with revolving lead characters. They are standalone tales and can be read in any order. Colin co-authored The Charlie-316 series. The first novel in the series, CHARLIE-316, is a political/crime thriller that has been described as “riveting and compulsively readable,” “the real deal,” and “the ultimate ride-along.” He served in the U.S. Army and later was an officer of the Spokane Police Department. He's a commercial real estate broker/investor, owned a laundromat, invested in a bar, and ran a karate school. Colin lives with his beautiful life partner, their three wonderful children, and a crazy, codependent Vizsla that rules their world.

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 of Essex. A former police detective, Caroline writes full time, with over 1.3 million books sold worldwide.As well as her crime series, Caroline also writes stand-alone psychological thrillers. Her books have won first place as best psychological thriller in the US Reader’s Favourite Awards, been shortlisted for the International Thriller Awards in New York and been shortlisted for ‘Best Procedural’ in the Killer Nashville awards. Her crime thriller, Truth And Lies is a No.1 New York Times best seller and has been optioned for TV.

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 crowded places, such as Denver, or Atlanta, but after a year or two I always end up back in the high plains, where the antelope greatly outnumber the people. I've worked the usual jobs that writers end up with--cook, cowboy, roughneck, ambulance driver-- but mainly I've been a land surveyor, specializing in remote areas of the west and also Alaska, where I've helped to build airstrips, pipelines, gold mines and power plants. I like land surveying in the bush because it's outdoor work and there are few people and very little noise. For the last decade I've spent half of every year in Latin America. My first novel is about drug smugglers in Texas and Mexico. For research on that book I crossed the border alone, at night. You can read my blog post about that experience on my website, edmundpickett.com/Swimming The Rio Grande. My second novel is about Islamic terrorists and the FBI agent who is chasing them. The third novel that I've published, Following Joshua Carpenter, was actually the first I wrote, many years ago. No publisher was interested then, but now we have the internet, and the book is finding its audience.

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 the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, having been assigned to Major Crimes. Swinson is the author of THE SECOND GIRL, CRIME SONG, TRIGGER and CITY ON THE EDGE. He lives with his wife and daughter in Northern Virginia.

Thriller and horror author Dan Padavona grew up in Cortland, New York, outside the beautiful Finger Lakes, where he earned degrees from SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oneonta. He entered the National Weather Service in 1994 and later became a forecaster for NOAA. After publishing Storberry in 2014, Dan fell in love with writing and authored nine additional titles by the end of 2017. Bram Stoker Award winner and legendary horror author Brian Keene called Dan “one of the most exciting writers to burst upon the scene in quite some time.”His works are currently being produced for audio books and foreign translations. He’s a supporter of Scares That Care and regularly donates to cancer research. Dan loves animals, especially his dogs and Russian tortoise.When he’s not writing, Dan enjoys photography, biking, weight lifting, and storm chasing. Dan has videotaped tornadoes from New York to Oklahoma and Texas, and was nearly swept up by a strong twister outside Sweetwater, Texas. A self-proclaimed ice cream and gelato lover, Dan admits to spending too much time in the gym, compensating for his questionable nutritional decisions.Dan Padavona is the author of The Wolf Lake series, The Darkwater Cove series, The Scarlett Bell series, and Dark Vanishings, finalist for eFestival of Word’s 2016 Indie Novel of the Year award. Storberry, his vampire horror debut, reached #1 on the Amazon Horror and Occult charts in May 2016.

Pauline Rowson can often be found walking the coastal paths of England looking for a good place to put a body! So far she has managed to avoid arrest. Her multi-layered, mystery crime novels and thrillers are all set against the backdrop of the ever-changing sea. Fifteen of them feature the heart-breaking, rugged, and flawed detective, DI Andy Horton; two her thoughtful, reflective 1950s set Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Ryga; and three her action hero, former Marine Commando Art Marvik working as an undercover investigator for the UK Police's National Intelligence Marine Squad, plus two standalone thrillers, In Cold Daylight and In For The Kill. Her crime novels have been hailed as "outstanding" "compelling" "full of twists and turns" and "gripping"

Margaret Murphy writes internationally acclaimed and bestselling psychological thrillers under her own name, and forensic thrillers as Ashley Dyer and AD Garrett. She is a past Chair of the UK Crime Writers Association (CWA), founder of Murder Squad, and a former RLF Writing Fellow and Reading Round Lector. She's been a country park ranger, biology teacher, dyslexia specialist, and Visiting Professor in creative writing. A Short Story Dagger, HRF Keating, and CWA Red Herring award winner, she has also been shortlisted for the 'First Blood' critics award and CWA Dagger in the Library.

J.C. Fields is the author of the award-winning suspense novels, The Sean Kruger Series. His book, A Lone Wolf is a #1 Best Selling Audiobook and the start of a new series.​ With a degree in Psychology, five years in the computer industry, and a long career of dealing with individuals possessing quirky personalities, J.C. has incorporated these experiences into his writing. The Sean Kruger novels have won numerous awards, most recently three gold Readers' Favorite medals and one silver. ​He is active in numerous writing groups and serves on the board of the Springfield Writers' Guild. He lives with his wife, Connie, and their attack cat, Asia, in Southwest Missouri.

When Mark Edward Langley was 9, he moved to a south suburb of Chicago, where he lived until 18 and his father was transferred to Houston, TX. Langley took a job with B. Dalton Booksellers and begun his love for reading. Langley has always felt a kinship with the American Southwest. When he was young, his parents took him on vacation out west where his heart and soul were touched by the beauty of the landscape and the wonder of its people. When he was older, he began reading Robert B. Parker, Mickey Spillane, John D. McDonald, Ernest Hemingway, Tony Hillerman, and more recently, Craig Johnson of Longmire fame. But it was when he took a two-week trip into the West of his youth in his thirties, that he realized he had found his true home. Researching his debut novel, Path of the Dead, he drove from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Glacier National Park, Montana, traveling through the beautiful and iconic scenery that was to become the book's majestic backdrop. Upon revisiting New Mexico, doing research for his second novel, Death Waits in the Dark, he had the wonderful opportunity to meet with some of the Navajo people and have an open and respectful conversation. Langley is an award-winning author of the Arthur Nakai Mystery Series, with Death Waits in the dark winning both as a finalist in the American Book Fest Awards 2020 and winning the coveted Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery of 2021. His third novel in the series, When Silence Screams, will be released in August of 2021. He is currently writing his fourth novel of the series, Broken Glass, due out August 2022. Langley and his wife, Barbara, divide their time between their home in Indiana and New Mexico.

Chris Racknor has a Ph.D. in physics and lives in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. He has been an astronomy teacher, physicist, competitive strongman, varsity rugby player, and stay-at-home dad. He is a family man, data junkie, sci-fi nerd, professional kilt-wearing tree thrower, and sumo wrestling aficionado with plenty more stories to tell. He is the author of disgraced physicist Shawn Ronin turned PI series

Jason Dalgliesh was born on the south coast of England and grew up in Hampshire, UK. He has worked in the power transmission industry, the retail sector, call centres, and as a night-owl in a bakery. He has a degree in history. Following on from the worldwide bestselling Scandinavian noir-like Dark Yorkshire crime series, he has introduced DI Tom Janssen in the Hidden Norfolk books. Rapidly becoming bestsellers in their own right, the first in the series, One Lost Soul, hit #1 in the Amazon charts and the fifth book, Hear No Evil, was shortlisted for Amazon’s prestigious Kindle Storyteller Award in 2020. Jason has seen multiple books top the charts in the USA, Canada, and Australia. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two small children.

Tammy Euliano, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and tenured professor at the University of Florida. In addition to a prolific list of academic publications, YouTube teaching videos, and numerous teaching awards, she has also written award-winning short fiction. Fatal Intent is her debut novel. Tammy lives in Gainesville, FL, with her husband

Robert B. McCaw grew up in a military family traveling the world. After graduating from Georgetown University, he served as a lieutenant in the US Army before earning his JD degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Upon graduation from law school, he spent a year as a judicial clerk for Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black. He practiced law in Washington, DC, and New York City, representing investment banks, lawyers, directors, and other clients in complex civil and criminal cases, including many that generated significant press coverage. He writes in the Koa Kane Series where the islands of Hawaii are central to the themes and concepts. His debut novel is Death of a messenger and she followed them with Off the Grid, Fire, and Vengeance and his fourth to be named novel in the series with arriving in January of 2022.

What makes Rachel a wonderful guest for this show is her research skills and persistence which led to Solving a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery, The Edgar nominated book The Man from the Train is her first book. She co-wrote with her father Bill James, whose name you might know from Michael Lewis's book and the Movie of the same name Moneyball starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. Rachel is my first amateur detective to come on the show and hopefully, she will not be my last. Rachel McCarthy James lives in Lawrence, KS with her husband Jason. She studied creative writing at Hollins University, and her work has previously been featured in publications including Bitch, Broadly, and The New Inquiry.

Lisa 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 in the Jessica Shaw series, was published in November 2020. Lisa now writes full-time.

Sheldon Siegel is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon best-selling author of the critically acclaimed legal thriller series featuring San Francisco criminal defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. He is also the author of the thriller novel The Terrorist Next Door featuring Chicago homicide detectives David Gold and A.C. Battle. Sheldon’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. A native of Chicago, Sheldon earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign in 1980, and his law degree from the University of California-Berkeley in 1983. He specializes in corporate and securities law with the San Francisco office of the international law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP. Sheldon began writing his first book, SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, on a laptop computer during his daily commute on the ferry from Marin County to San Francisco. A frequent speaker and sought-after teacher, Sheldon is a San Francisco Library Literary Laureate, a member of the National Board of Directors and the President of the Northern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, and an active member of the International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. His work has been displayed at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, and he has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois and a Northern California Super Lawyer. Sheldon lives in Marin County with his wife, Linda, and a 17-year-old tabby cat named Betty. They also have twin sons named Alan and Stephen. He is a lifelong fan of the Chicago Bears, White Sox, Bulls, and Blackhawks. His twelfth Mike Daley/Rosie Fernandez story, FINAL OUT, was released on January 26, 2021. He is currently working on his next novel.

Simon McCleave was born in South London. When leaving University, he worked in television and film development. He was a Script Editor at the BBC, a producer at Channel 4 before working as a Story Analyst in Los Angeles. He worked on films such as 'The Full Monty' and television series such as the BBC Crime Drama 'Between The Lines'. Simon then became a scriptwriter for television and film. He wrote on series such as Silent Witness, Murder In Suburbia, Teachers, Attachments, The Bill, Eastenders, and many more. His film, 'Out of the Game' for Channel 4 was critically acclaimed - 'An unflinching portrayal of male friendship.' (Time Out) Simon is now a best-selling crime novelist. He has had over 300,000 sales and downloads of his DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller series. The first book in that series, 'The Snowdonia Killings', has now had over 100,000 readers and reached the top ten of the Amazon Chart. His five subsequent novels in the DI Ruth Hunter Crime Thriller Series have all ranked in the Amazon Top 20 and are all Amazon Best Sellers. Simon has just signed a deal to turn the books into a television series.

Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel The Marsh King’s Daughter, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the U.S. and in 26 other languages. Her follow up novel, The Wicked Sister (August 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons), is also an international bestseller and Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 2020. The Marsh King’s Daughter was selected by the Library of Michigan as a 2018 Michigan Notable Book, and took home the Barry and the Crimson Scribe Awards for Best Novel. The Marsh King’s Daughter was also chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by iBooks, Hudson Booksellers, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Irish Independent, The Florida Sun-Sentinel, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness and many other booksellers and reviewers, and is in development as a major motion picture. Karen has been active in the writing community for over twenty years. She co-founded the online writers community Backspace, and organized the Backspace Writers Conferences in New York and the Salt Cay Writers Retreat held on a private island in the Bahamas. She is a member of the International Thriller Writers, where she served as managing editor of their monthly publication, The Big Thrill, and on the board of directors as Vice President, Technology.

Daniel Waters is a native of Southern New Jersey. He graduated from St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and has been publishing stories and essays since 1981; his work has appeared in the Journal of The American Medical Association, The New Physician, The Examined Life (University of Iowa) and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (Columbia University). He has practiced open-heart surgery for thirty years and is the author of A Heart Surgeon’s Little Instruction Book and A Surgeon’s Little Instruction Book, pocket collections of surgical advice, and aphorisms. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Narrative Healthcare and a Master of Arts in Writing from The Center for Graduate Studies/The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Asheville, NC. He and his wife Pamela have three grown children and live in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Our guest today is David Stever. David is a novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He writes the Johnny Delarosa mystery-thriller series, debuting with, AUBURN RIDE, paying homage to the great detective fiction of the past. The series has been called “noir for the 21st Century.” Fans of hard-boiled, crime thriller books, complete with sexy femme fatales, will love the Delarosa series. He is a member of the Private Eye Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and the Maryland Writers Association. Originally from Tyrone, Pennsylvania, he lives in Columbia, Maryland with his wife and family.

Matt Coyle is the author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime series. Matt knew he wanted to be a crime writer at age thirteen when his father gave him Raymond Chandler’s THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER. Matt’s books have won the Anthony, Shamus, Lefty, Ben Franklin Silver, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Silver, and San Diego Book Awards. BLIND VIGIL, the seventh book in the Rick Cahill series. Matt hosts the Crime Corner podcast and lives in San Diego with his yellow Lab, Angus, where he is writing his eighth crime novel.

Today’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers. You can get them through Amazon right now: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share James D.F. Hannah is the Shamus Award-winning author of the Henry Malone novels, as well as the novel THE RIGHTEOUS PATH. A native of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, Hannah was an award-winning former journalist and columnist before moving into governmental public relations. He lives with entirely too many cats in Louisville, Kentucky. http://www.Jamesdfhannah.com Twitter: @JamesDFHannah https://twitter.com/jamesdfhannah Order book: https://t.co/ESf8MwSAPH?amp=1 Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

Today’s episode is brought to you by John’s full series of crime thrillers available for pre-order now. You can get them through Amazon right now: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share My guest is today is Andy Maslen. Andy was born in Nottingham, England. After leaving university with a degree in psychology, he worked in the business for thirty years as a copywriter. In his spare time, he plays blues guitar. He lives in Wiltshire. He is the author of the Detective Ford series http://www.andymaslen.com http://www.bingebooks.com Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of nineteen novels His books have been translated into 40 languages with 25,000,000 copies in 51 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists. History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel. It’s his passion, one he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, which led them to create History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation. Since 2009 Steve and Elizabeth have crossed the country to save endangered historic treasures,

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: Amazon John A. Hoda is a real-life PI, Business Coach, Podcaster of My Favorite Detective Stories, and author of four books on the business of private investigations. His cases have headlined in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New Haven Register. He has been a lifetime athlete, running marathons, playing adult soccer, and semi-professional football. He has created the FBI Agent Marsha O’She crime thriller series http://wwww.johnhoda.com http://www.thepicoach.com Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/John-A.-Hoda/e/B00BGPXBMM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: Amazon Norman Brewer is an award-winning reporter and editor who worked for The Des Moines Register and Tribune for Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C. He was also the Director of Employee Communications at the Transportation Security Administration. Killer Politics is the sequel to Blending In: A Tale of Homegrown Terrorism. https://www.amazon.com/Norman-Brewer/e/B0756KLHZM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: Amazon My Favorite Detective Stories: Our guest today is Frank Bequaert. Frank resides in Keene, New Hampshire, and grew up in the Boston area. Went to school and trained at Harvard University and then Stanford University as an electrical engineer, He began writing for his high school literary magazine and continued to write short stories, selling them to Cosmopolitan and Playboy magazine amongst other notable publications of the day. Most recently he's published in mystery weekly magazine and the short story that caught my attention was "Never Kidnap a Crime Novelist" under his pen name of Stan Dryer. It is my pleasure to bring on, Frank Bequaert. I believe that you'll enjoy this interview about a short story writer. https://standryer.com/ Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

Doug is the Amazon #1 Bestselling; Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Award winning; and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Shamus, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Today Best Book Award nominated author of 17 books, both non-fiction and fiction, including the Samantha Cody, Dub Walker, and Jake Longly thriller series and the Royal Pains media tie-in novels. His essay on Jules Verne's THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND appears in THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS, his short story "Even Steven" in ITW's anthology THRILLER 3: LOVE IS MURDER, and his short story "Bottom Line" in FOR THE SAKE OF THE GAME. He is International Thriller Writer's VP for Education, and runs CraftFest, Master CraftFest, and ITW's Online Thriller School. Along with Jan Burke, he was co-host of Crime and Science Radio. He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women's Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars. http://www.dplylemd.com/ Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: Amazon Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: Amazon Guest Profile: Stephanie Kane is a lawyer and award-winning author of six crime novels. Born in Brooklyn, she came to Colorado as a freshman at CU. She owned and ran a karate studio in Boulder and is a second-degree black belt. After graduating from law school, she was a corporate partner at a top Denver law firm before becoming a criminal defense attorney. She has lectured on money laundering and white-collar crime in Eastern Europe and given workshops throughout the country on writing techniques. http://www.WriterKane.com Stephanie Kane Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorStephanieKane/ Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com Subscribe now to ensure you catch next weeks episode of How to Rocket Your PI Business Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=kT_29qTMQSWvdeIZOXWRFg

David Housewright is a past President of the Private Eye Writers of America, Housewright won a prestigious Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and three Minnesota Book Awards for his Rushmore McKenzie and Holland Taylor private eye novels as well as other tales of murder and mayhem in the midwest.

Julian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist in TV, print, radio, and on the Web. He is a veteran TV documentary writer and director as well as an accomplished newsroom trainer and the author of six widely-acclaimed books. He has been an investigative journalist for Canada's two leading newspapers, The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. He was the Senior Producer of CBC's the fifth estate, Canada's premier investigative TV program for five years.A recognized expert on the justice system and crime, Julian Sher has been a keynote speaker at several leading law enforcement conferences. He co-authored two books on outlaw motorcycle gangs, The Road to Hell and Angels of Death: Inside the Biker's Global Crime Empire, was been hailed as "a devastating indictment of the gangs' drug-running and racketeering across three continents" and has been translated into several languages and sold in seven countries. As a newsroom trainer, Julian has taught journalists at CNN, the BBC, and in newspapers and TV networks across Canada. He has also trained in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, and Nigeria for the World Bank. He also consulted for the OECD in Paris and UNICEF in New York.

Our guest this week is Mike Omer. Mike has been a journalist game developer CEO of a gaming company, right. And it's really hit his stride is a mystery thriller writer with two series that Glenmore park mysteries, which introduces Zoe Bentley. He is also the writer of the Zoe Bentley series, Mike is working on a new series with a female hostage negotiator as his lead protagonist. We talked about craft and how important editors are to the process of crafting a great book. It's my pleasure to welcome Mike Omer to the show.

Our guest this week is Mark Edward Langley. Mark was instilled with the love for the American West at a young age by his father after revisiting it throughout childhood, his connection to the land and people became irrevocable. He spent almost 30 years working in the corporate world and retired at the end of 2016 to focus on his career as a novelist. His first novel Path of the Dead was released in August of 2018. Death Waits in the Dark was released in 2020, and he's now working on his third novel in the Arthur Nikkei series, Mark and his wife, Barbara live in Indiana and split their time between there and the American Southwest.

J. Todd Scott was born in rural Kentucky and attended college and law school in Virginia, where he set aside an early ambition to write to pursue a career as a federal agent. His assignments have taken him all over the U.S and the world, but a badge and gun never replaced his passion for books and writing. He now resides in the American Southwest, and when he’s not hunting down very bad men, he’s hard at work on his next book.

D.P. Lyle. is the Amazon #1 Bestselling; Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Award winning; and Edgar(2), Agatha, Anthony, Shamus, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Today Best Book(2) Award nominated author of 17 books, both non-fiction and fiction, including the Samantha Cody, Dub Walker, and Jake Longly thriller series and the Royal Pains media tie-in novels. His essay on Jules Verne's THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND appears in THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS, his short story "Even Steven" in ITW's anthology THRILLER 3: LOVE IS MURDER, and his short story "Bottom Line" in FOR THE SAKE OF THE GAME. He served as editor for and contributed the short story "Splash" to SCWA's anthology IT'S ALL IN THE STORY. He is International Thriller Writer's VP for Education, and runs CraftFest, Master CraftFest, and ITW's Online Thriller School. Along with Jan Burke, he was co-host of Crime and Science Radio. He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women's Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars.

Our guest this week  is Rick Pullen. Rick is an award-winning investigative reporter, magazine editor, a novelist who lives in Virginia. He is a member of the folio 100, the 100 most influential people in magazine publishing. He was a finalist for the editor of the year in 2015 and spent most of his career in Washington, DC. He started writing fiction in 2011, Naked Ambition published in May 2016 was his first in the Naked City series of thrillers and immediately became a bestseller, Naked Truth. a sequel was released in September 2018.  Volume one of The Apprentice, a fast-paced serial about a rookie reporter thrust into the Washington political nightmare was released in December 2017. Rick is a member of the international thriller writers. Also mystery writers of America, the Authors Guild, and the national press club. He has started two writers critique groups and an author's dinner group is my pleasure to bring onto the show. Rick Pullen.

Barbara Nickless is the #1 Amazon and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the “blisteringly original” Sydney Parnell crime novels featuring a railway cop and her K9 partner. About the series, Jeffery Deaver promises “you'll fall in love with one of the best characters in thriller fiction.” The series has been optioned for television and has won two Colorado Book Awards and the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence. The first book in the series was a Suspense Magazine “best of 2016” selection. Barbara’s essays and short stories have appeared in Writer’s Digest, Criminal Element, Penguin Random House, and other markets. She also teaches creative writing to veterans at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Barbara is often in the Rocky Mountains where she loves to hike, cave, and drink single malt Scotch—although usually not at the same time.

Our guest this week is New York Times-bestselling author Michael Koryta. A former newspaper reporter and private investigator, his work has been translated into more than 20 languages and have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. They’ve been selected as “best books of the year” by numerous publications. Those Who Wish Me Dead is currently in production as a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Tyler Perry, Jon Bernthal and Aidan Gillen and directed by Taylor Sheridan. THE CHILL, his first novel under the Scott Carson name, was called "a terrific horror/suspense/disaster novel, with characters you root for and a story that grips from the first page" by Stephen King.

Dana King Dana has earned Shamus Award nominations for two of his Nick Forte novels, A Small Sacrifice and The Man in the Window. He also writes the Penns River novels, of which the fifth novel in the series, Pushing Water, released from Down & Out Books on May 4. His work has appeared in the anthologies The Black Car Business, Unloaded 2, The Shamus Sampler 2, and Blood, Guts, and Whiskey. He is a member of ITW, PWA, and Sisters in Crime. We both attended IUP, Indiana University of Pa. in the seventies.

My guest to today is Joseph Wambaugh. Joe is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He has been nominated for 4 Edgar Awards (winning 3), and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. The son of a police officer, Wambaugh was born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He joined the United States Marine Corps at age 17 and married at 18. Wambaugh received an associate of arts degree from Chaffey College and joined the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1960. He served for 14 years, rising through the ranks from patrolman to detective sergeant. He also attended California State University, Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.

Adam Platinga holds a B.A. in English with a second major in Criminology/Law Studies from Marquette University. He has written thirteen nonfiction articles on various aspects of police work for the literary magazine The Cresset. His first book, 400 Things Cops Know, was nominated for an Agatha Award and won the 2015 Silver Falchion award for best nonfiction crime reference. It was hailed as “truly excellent” by author Lee Child and deemed “the new Bible for crime writers” by The Wall Street Journal. He followed up with Police Craft: What Police know about community crime and violence. It is a thought-provoking and revelatory examination of policing in America. Plantinga was a Milwaukee police officer from 2001 to 2008. He is currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department assigned to street patrol. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and daughters.

Bill Vincent is a former police officer and is a NCAA college Umpire He has over 30 years' experience in the private sector specializing in litigation, fraud, surveillance, asset discovery, background intelligence, due diligence and location of witnesses and defendants. Have been the lead investigator in numerous multi-million dollar verdict cases. Two time recipient of the National Association of Legal Investigators Directors Award and Life Member. Made numerous presentations to the investigative and legal society in matters dealing with the use of investigators in litigation. Appeared in several episodes of a national Emmy winning television show detailing the workings of a private investigator.

My returning guest is Katherine Ramsland Dr. Ramsland holds graduate degrees in Forensic Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Philosophy. She teaches Forensic Psychology at DeSales Univerisity in Pennsylvania. She has written on the subjects of serial killers, crime scene investigations forensic science, mass murder and sex offenders.

Connie Dial is a 27-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department where she rose through the ranks as one of the first female patrol officers, promoting to detective, lieutenant and retiring as a captain and the commanding officer of the LAPD’s Hollywood division. She has a BA in Literature and Journalism from California State University in Los Angeles and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. She worked for many years as a journalist before her career in law enforcement. She earned her JD law degree while working as a narcotics detective and since her retirement from the LAPD had had nine books published.

Christina Duran is a licensed private investigator who specializes in tracking down missing and exploited children. We talk about her passion for investigations and go in-depth with her very first case as a licensed PI that went to court. I was fascinated by her work in the Dominican Republic on Human Trafficking cases.

My guest today is Frank Zafiro Frank served in the U.S. Army from 1986-91 in Military Intelligence as a Czechoslovak linguist. In 1993, he became a police officer in Spokane, Washington. During his career, he worked as a patrol officer, corporal, and detective before entered into leadership roles, becoming a sergeant in 2002. He was fortunate enough to command patrol officers, investigators, K-9 officers (and their dogs!), and the SWAT team. Frank retired from law enforcement in 2013 as a captain in order to write full time and to teach. From 2013-17, he taught law enforcement subject matter at the community college and university, and leadership as a national instructor for a prominent police institution. He also occasionally teaches a series of writing workshops. Frank earned a BA in History from Eastern Washington University in 1998, and an MS in Administration of Justice from the University of Louisville in 2012. Frank began writing seriously at about thirteen. In 1995, he started a draft of Under A Raging Moon, which would become the first book in the River City series of crime fiction. Since then, Frank has completed multiple novels set in River City, a fictional version of Spokane, Washington, such as the Stefan Kopriva mystery series. Frank has held the Amazon #1 author spot for police procedurals. I am happy to welcome Frank Zafiro to the show.

Matt is a 1996 graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a BS Criminal Justice. Since 2005, he is the president of Satellite Investigations specializing in Personal Injury investigations and Security Risk management. Their Personal Injury division focuses on Plaintiff Investigations to assist attorneys in gathering information on their claims and making assessments on how to proceed depending on liability. Their Risk Management division focuses on professional services assistance for Risk Management teams both in the corporate and private industry. He developed www.investigators-toolbox.com, an online resource community for Private Investigators throughout the United States. He is the owner of Pi-Perspectives, a weekly podcast show available on all podcast platforms and on Youtube. He has written a chapter in the textbook: The Art of Investigation by CRC Press and is a regular columnist for PI Magazine.

My guest today is the investigative Journalist Nancy Rommelmann To the Bridge, a True Story of Motherhood and Murder - July 2018The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children? On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. His seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was saved. As the public cried out for blood, Amanda was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Embarking on a seven-year quest for the truth, Rommelmann traced the roots of Amanda’s fury and desperation via thousands of pages of records, meetings with lawyers and convicts, and interviews with friends and family who felt shocked, confused, and emotionally swindled by a woman whose life was now defined by an unspeakable crime. At the heart of that crime: a tempestuous marriage, a family on the fast track to self-destruction, and a myriad of secrets and lies as dark and turbulent as the Willamette River. We also discuss Sacrificing Rebecca: Laurie Recht loved her 14-year-old daughter to death. Literally. (Willamette Week)” and to top it off, guess who was the last journalist to interview John Wayne Gacy?

New Hope Investigations was founded at the start of 2016 by Rachele’ Davis, a former crime analyst for her local police department. After seven years in local government and seven years prior to that as a teacher, Rachele’ found herself drawn to the private sector of investigations and the challenge of building her own business. Her master's degree in criminal justice, resourcefulness, productivity level, and innovation have already served her well in this capacity. Rachele’ obtained her private investigator licenses through both Missouri and Kansas in 2016. In Adoption related investigations Rachele' also provides some general investigative services on a case-by-case basis. She works in various capacities for individuals, attorneys, and businesses. Rachele' regularly stays up-to-date with current trends and changes in the industry. She pours over the ever-changing social media and open-source (OSINT) environments and stays informed of their continual evolvement. To enhance her adoption investigations, Rachele’ continues to learn more and more about the complex and fascinating field of genealogy. She is a member of the American Adoption Congress, Association of Professional Genealogists, International Society of Genetic Genealogy, and National Genealogical Society.

My guest this week is August Norman. Originally from central Indiana, thriller and mystery author August Norman has called Los Angeles home for two decades, writing for and/or appearing in movies, television, stage productions, web series, and even commercial advertising. A lover and champion of crime fiction, August regularly attends the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference and is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and the Sisters in Crime. COME AND GET ME, August’s debut thriller featuring investigative journalist Caitlin Bergman, was listed in Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2019 issue in the Debut category and SINS OF THE MOTHER, the second in the Caitlin Bergman series, will be released in September 2020 by Crooked Lane Books.

Kelly Riddle is the President of Kelmar Global Private Investigations, He has written 12 books, founded and sat on the boards of notable private investation associations and is a much sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars. He has an online school for private investigators and has grown his business from 5 investigators in 1989 to over 61 with staff support and a management structure. NAIS The National Association of Investigative Specialists named him on of the Top 25 PI's of the 20th Century. I count Kelly as a mentor and colleague striving to make our profession as professional as possible.

Mark Bergin graduated from Boston University with a degree in journalism, then worked four years as a newspaper reporter and photographer, winning the Virginia Press Association Award for general news reporting, before joining the Alexandria, Virginia, Police Department in 1986. Twice named Police Officer of the Year for narcotics and robbery investigations, he served in most of the posts described in APPREHENSION, his debut novel, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant. Kirkus Reviews calls APPREHENSION “compelling,” and said Bergin is a “gritty and authentic new voice in police fiction" Bergin lives in Alexandria and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with his wife Ruth, an attorney and former public defender. They have two children. Write him at berginwriter@gmail.com, Facebook friend him at Mark Bergin, writer or follow his blog at http://www.markberginwriter.com.

Michael Julian is the CEO/President of MPS Security & Protection, a division of National Business Investigations, Inc., founded in 1967 by his father Ron Julian.  The company provides corporate executive protection, threat and risk mitigation, and security. Michael is licensed in multiple states as a Private Investigator and Security Professional, is a graduate of the Executive Protection Institute and Executive Security International, and Board Director or member of several national and international industry associations.  His security training includes behavioral threat assessment, active shooter survival, executive and asset protection, self-defense, defensive and evasive driving, close protection, aviation security, protective surveillance and counter-surveillance, and covert protection. Besides Active Shooter, he frequently teaches training courses in Executive and Asset Protection. In 2014 Michael created the A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival Training Program and began teaching his Active Shooter Survival philosophy throughout the United States.  His book on the subject, 10 Minutes to Live: Using A.L.I.V.E. to Survive an Actives Shooter was published in 2017. In 2019, the long-awaited Online version of the ALIVE Training Program was launched and is now part of the corporate employee security training program for companies throughout the world. In mid-2019 the first ALIVE Instructor Certification Course was held at the ALIVE Corporate Headquarters in Southern California, creating several new, qualified instructors to present the program. Michael is now a keynote speaker at conferences, but still teaches the course to select businesses, public utility agencies, medical and educational institutions throughout the world.

By day, Andrew Welsh-Huggins is an editor and reporter for the Associated Press in Columbus, focusing on criminal justice topics. By earlier in the day, he is the author of six mysteries featuring Andy Hayes, a former Ohio State and Cleveland Browns quarterback turned private eye. Of Andrew’s most recent book, Fatal Judgment, Publishers Weekly said, “Intriguing . . . Fans of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone books will be pleased.” Andrew is also the editor of the Columbus Noir anthology, upcoming in March from Akashic Books. His 2009 nonfiction book, No Winners Here Tonight, is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio. His short mystery fiction has appeared in Kings River Life, Down And Out Magazine, Tough, Mystery Weekly Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. When he’s not writing or reporting, Andrew enjoys running, reading, spending time with family, and trying to recall why having a dog, three cats and two parakeets seemed like a good idea at the time.